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Donizetti Linda Chamounix

Linda di Chamounix came towards the end of Donizetti’s composing career. It was first performed in May 1842 at the...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 8/2011

Busoni (Die) Brautwahl

Busoni’s first mature opera occupied him for seven years (1905-11). He may not have been as natural a man of...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/1999

Clarinet Music by Bruch, Mozart & Schumann

It was a delightful idea to bring together three winning works for the rare combination of clarinet, viola and piano,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/1989

Fernand Ansseau (1890-1972)

How very good to hear Ansseau again: the rekindling of an old affection, recognition of the distinctive timbre, the conviction...

Reviewed in issue 1/1991

Beethoven Symphony No. 3; Coriolan

There is not so much a world of difference between these two performances of the Eroica Symphony as an intergalactic...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/1997

Hartmann Orchestral Works

The Concerto funebre (1939, rev 1959) has fared better on disc than any other Hartmann work, even the Sixth Symphony....

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 9/2007

British Gramophone Premieres

Of the present four British works from around 1930 – two of them (the Bax and the Moeran) not otherwise...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1995

Gypsy Strings

Now here’s something different! London Concertante’s leader Adam Summerhayes and the orchestra’s principal second violin Emil Chakalov met when they...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 4/2008

Dowland: Songs and Lute Works

It was Alfred Deller who, with the help of Desmond Dupre, and the gramophone, first brought John Dowland's lute-songs to...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 7/1989

Brahms: Symphonies, etc

I reviewed each of the four single discs which make up Dohnanyi's Brahms cycle, but though I had a clear...

Reviewed in issue 6/1989

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