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Verdi Rigoletto

That one recording should continue to hold sway over many other attractive comers after 30 years is simply a tribute...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1987

Tchaikovsky Orchestral Works

Tchaikovsky's Tempest is a flawed work nevertheless offering imaginative moments, impressive orchestral colouring and a magnificent love theme - perhaps...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/2000

Mozart Piano Trios

The Trio Fontenay are a young German ensemble with an average age of 30, who studied in Hamburg and took...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 11/1991

(The) Reopening of the Teatro alla Scala, Milan in 1946

The war over, the Milanese set about the immediate rebuilding of the bombed La Scala. By 1946 the work was...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1999

Rossini Ricciardo e Zoraide

It was inevitable that when interest finally focused on the superb array of heavyweight operas Rossini created for Naples between...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/1997

Cherubini/Haydn Masses

Cherubini was born in 1760, four years after Mozart, and lived until 1842, when Beethoven had been in his grave...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 5/1993

Scriabin: Piano works

This is the long-delayed final instalment of Ashkenazy's Scriabin cycle (Nos. 2, 7 and 10 are available on SXL6868, 9/78;...

Reviewed in issue 10/1987

Corelli in Concert

“Vittoria! Vittoria!” No wonder all the backroom boys and torture-chamber skivvies pile in during the course of that top note...

Reviewed in issue 4/1998

Vivaldi Cello Sonatas

Pleeth and Shepperd (CRD), using period instruments, are at present the only ones to offer all nine extant sonatas, a...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/1991

Emil von Sauer 1940 Live Recordings

These recordings were made when Sauer was in his late seventies, and the recently discovered solo works in particular reveal...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 5/1999

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