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Verdi Rigoletto

This Rigoletto never had much to commend it. In its day it stood well below the old Cellini/RCA and Cetra...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1994

Bowen; Walton Viola Concertos

Helen Callus, British-born but based in America, plays with sumptuous tone matched by flawless intonation to give the most beautiful...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/2006

Birtwistle (The) Axe Manual - Complete Piano Works

Though most of the items in this indispensable collection of Birtwistle’s keyboard music last five minutes or less, two are...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/2005

Suk Symphony No 2 'Asrael'

You wait ages for Suk’s Asrael to enter the international repertoire and then three non-Czech recordings arrive all at once....

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2009

Handel Serse

Handel’s Serse has proved to be one of the most popular of his operas over recent years – certainly in...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 6/1998

Schubert & Haydn String Quartets

Included here are a pleasant performance and a good one, both well recorded. The 'pleasant' reading is the Schubert: beautifully...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 5/1992

Mathias Lux Aeterna

This is a transfer to CD of a recording issued nearly five years ago, just after Lux aeterna had had...

Reviewed in issue 11/1989

Strauss, R Elektra (DVD)

I enjoyed, if that is the right word for Elektra’s gruesome drama, this performance of Strauss’s opera (taken from the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/2000

Haydn: String Quartets

The Mosaiques Quartet, who use period instruments, are new to me, though the cellist, Christophe Coin, has made several appearances...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/1990

Albinoni Oboe Concerti

Albinoni's oboe concertos may not have been the very first of their kind to be written—Vivaldi could have beaten him...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1990

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