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Ravel: Orchestral Works

One selection has already been extracted from Martinon's original five-record set of Ravel's complete orchestral music (12/88), but this skims...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1989

Giuseppe Di Stefano Opera Arias and Songs

Very moving it is to hear this voice again in its absolute prime. Consulting the original review (3/81) of the...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Lawes Consort Sets in Five and Six Parts

Jordi Savall’s Hespèrion XXI joins Phantasm (Channel Classics‚ 8/02) and Concordia (Metro­ nome‚ 8/02) in celebration of William Lawes’s 400th...

Reviewed in issue 9/2002

Brahms Violin Concerto in D, Op 77

Common to these performances, both of which were mined from the archives of the French National Audiovisual Institute, is the...

Reviewed in issue 9/1993

Brahms; Hough Lieder

For all Brahms’s melodic and rhythmic inventiveness in his Liebeslieder waltzes, anyone who listens to the two sets straight through...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2011

Puccini Tosca

Caballe's Tosca is one of the most ravishingly sung on record, with scarcely a less than beautiful note from one...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/1993

Mahler Symphony No 6

I shall be watching out for Michiyoshi Inoue. The notes tell me that he won the Guido Cantelli competition in...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 9/1989

Telemann Trauer-Actus

Reprehensibly‚ Harmonia Mundi has omitted the identifying TWV numbers. They are needed‚ because though Peter Wollny in the booklet states...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

Brahms Symphony No 3 & Alto Rhapsody

In Abbado's hands, the opening of the symphony is a massive gesture, the rising wind motif suggesting a drama-in-progress, the...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 1/1991

Handel Joseph and his Brethren

No one would claim a specially high place among Handel’s oratorios for Joseph and his Brethren, but the neglect it...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 12/1996

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