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Rossini Otello

The Valle d’Itria Festival at Martina Franca in Southern Italy has long specialised in 18th- and 19th-century operatic rarities, more...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Marcello Requiem in the Venetian Manner

Benedetto Marcello, younger brother of Alessandro, was a Venetian contemporary of Vivaldi. He is remembered in history books more for...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1999

Strauss, J II Simplicius

Even after the recent release of an Austrian Radio recording of Der lustige Krieg (ORF CD240), Simplicius would not be...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 11/2000

Fauré Piano Quartets

It's a long time since I've enjoyed a record so much on so many counts—performance, recording, sleeve presentation, and last...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 10/1985

Ravel; Toldrá; Turina Works for String Quartet

Here is a disc promoted by the Spanish arm of Harmonia Mundi, designed to link the work of Ravel with...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/2007

Music for St Paul's

Anyone who has tried to listen to music in St Paul’s Cathedral might be forgiven for hesitating before buying a...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 11/1998

Mendelssohn-Hensel Oratorio

Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel was still only 26 when writing this little oratorio in 1831, just two years after her marriage. We're...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1989

Brahms Violin Sonatas

Nothing for Brahms in earlier days was more momentous than the reception he received from Robert and Clara Schumann when...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 11/1991

Verdi Un ballo in maschera

The most cogent reason for acquiring this set is Pavarotti's Riccardo, a superior reading to that on his later performance...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1994

Second Viennese School

When orchestras (to say nothing of audiences) were still baffled by these pieces, performances of them often sounded pretty terrible:...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 11/1989

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