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Alnæs; Sinding Piano Concertos

For the 42nd issue in its “Romantic Piano Concerto” series, Hyperion turns for inspiration to Norway and, in a first...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2007

Cortot plays Chopin

Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu nostri patientis sanctissima is a cycle of seven cantatas, each one of which is an address to...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1996

Bach Cantatas, BWV 35/169/170

Of Bach’s four solo alto cantatas, Monica Groop foregoes only the early Widerstehe doch der Sunde (No. 54), a work...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 4/1999

Wagner Götterdämmerung

Naxos’s first modern Ring cycle ends, as it began, with a thoroughly professional, (almost) unexceptionable performance that served well as...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 8/2007

French Violin Sonatas Vol. 2

Virtually half a century of French violin music – and what a gulf between the clean-cut classicism of Saint-Saens’s 1885...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 5/1997

Music for Two Pianos

A disappointing record. The late John Ogdon and Brenda Lucas adopt, too often, a rather hard and aggressive style, it...

Reviewed in issue 2/1990

Adam Le Toréador

Richard Bonynge’s ability to persuade Decca to record out-of-the-way nineteenth-century French stage works has been to our repeated benefit over...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 4/1998

Bruckner Symphony No 7

Haitink's 1979 recording of Bruckner's Seventh Symphony is predictably distinguished, not as classically gaunt as his earlier Concertgebouw recording, with...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1987

Cilea (L')Arlesiana

There are some operas that you may not claim to know very well but which nevertheless swing easily into mind....

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/2005

I Let the Music Speak - (A) Tribute to Abba

Can blue men sing the whites? When established opera and concert singers try to boogie on down with rock, emote...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2006

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