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Rossini Semiramide

Semiramide is ideally an opera for the big night out rather than the cosy evening at home‚ but‚ as the...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

Mussorgsky Songs

This set, unavailable on LP in this country for many years, is undoubtedly one of the all-time glories of the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1989

O Maria Virgo - Las Huelgas, 1300

This recording presents an intriguing programme of particular interest to musicians and musicologists working in the field of early sacred...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 7/2008

Rochberg Symphony No 5

This is the second Naxos CD devoted to the music of George Rochberg to appear in less than a year,...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2003

Médée furieuse

With Annette Dasch’s “Armida” (Sony, 12/07), Cyril Auvity’s “Orphée” (Zig Zag, 4/08) and now Stéphanie d’Oustrac’s “Médée furieuse”, we have...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 9/2008

Operetta Arias & Duets

One’s personal benchmarks are set by the artists of one’s formative years. For me, as for so many others, EMI’s...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 7/2008

Chopin Piano Works

But for ending with the Fantaisie instead of the Barcarolle, Howard Shelley chooses the same programme here as Pollini did...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 7/1992

Bach/Mozart/Vivaldi Works for Violin & Orchestra

Having heard impressive things of the forthcoming CBS Compact Discs, I had high hopes of the present issue. The transfer...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 6/1983

Lauritz Melchior's 1946-7 MGM Recordings

In the years just after the war, two of the 20th-century’s greatest singers, Pinza and Melchior, moved from the opera...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/2001

Heifetz plays Korngold, Rózsa & Waxman

This is a record to have one even more open-mouthed than usual at the pure wizardry of Heifetz. All four...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1989

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