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Piazzolla El Tango

The new tango form owes an immeasurable debt to the classically trained Astor Piazzolla (he studied composition with Nadia Boulanger),...

Reviewed by rthomas in issue: 8/1998

Giordano Andrea Chenier

Opera’s favourite encounter with the French Revolution is back, and with it the kind of starry operatic production by a...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/2010

Massenet Werther

My initial prejudice against bringing forward the action of Massenet’s masterpiece of sentiment to the 1950s was mostly assuaged by...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/2006

Clifford Curzon: 1941-1972

You might call the Mozart concerto recordings ‘the lost sessions’ because they are making their first reappearance in nearly half...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 1/2004

Russian Cello Concertos

The real surprise here is the Kabalevsky. In the past I've found getting to know Kabalevsky more of a duty...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 6/1988

Fitzwilliam Virginal Book - excerpts

It seems a long time since a whole disc was devoted to either the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book or the solo...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/1988

Liszt Concertos for Piano Nos 1 & 2; Mephisto Waltz & other piano works

Here‚ in performances dating from 1967-71‚ before he was tragically overcome by illness and confusion‚ is John Ogdon playing with...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/2002

Mozart Mitridate

The presentation of a recording shouldn’t really come first, but this one’s does it no favours. Although it was made...

Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 7/2005

Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande

Unlike Karajan's Wagnerization of Debussy's intimate score (EMI, 2/88) or Boulez's pitilessly spotlit reduction of it to a bourgeois domestic...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1993

The Art of the Baroque Trumpet, Volume 1

Niklas Eklund comes from a growing dynasty of distinguished Swedish trumpeters, significantly fostered by outstanding teachers and players of which...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/1996

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