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Verdi (La) traviata

The economically minded will have already noticed that this set takes only two CDs to the three of its rivals....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1986

Marais Pièces de violes

A new generation of viol players are recording the music of Sainte-Colombe and Marin Marais, inspired by the success of...

Reviewed in issue 2/1994

Mozart Complete Works for Flute and Orchestra

Mozart’s splendid flute music provides the strongest proof that his supposed dislike for the instrument was only to justify his...

Reviewed in issue 8/1996

Franck Works for Cello and piano

Here are two Belgian composers in cello music on a Belgian label but with a Russian cellist and a Bulgarian...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/2012

Handel Organ Concertos, Op. 4

These are very direct, very musical performances of Handel’s first half-dozen organ concertos. No period instruments, no gimmicks, but just...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 6/1998

Carter Figments and Fragments

Even had there been more new releases in Elliott Carter’s centenary year, this disc from the Johannes Martens Ensemble would...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 1/2009

Zimmermann Requiem for a Young Poet

Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Requiem for a young poet is a humbling polyphony of twentieth-century misdeeds – riveting, provocative, uncompromising and...

Reviewed in issue 12/1995

Rimsky-Korsakov Orchestral Works

The Bergen Philharmonic play these highly colourful showpieces very well for Dmitri Kitaienko, and succeed in playing them as more...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1993

Sawallisch conducts R. Strauss & Wagner

If you have come to the conclusion that Sawallisch and charisma don’t go together, these recordings should make you think...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 13/1997

Rautavaara On the Last Frontier

Anadyomene (1968) suggests a Turner canvas recast in sound. It opens restlessly among undulating pastels (the strings tend to serve...

Reviewed in issue 5/1999

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