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Jane Eaglen - Italian Opera Arias

In a graceful envoi to his introductory essay‚ Benjamin Folkman writes: ‘With Ms Eaglen set for a long reign in...

Reviewed in issue 1/2002

Saxton Caritas

Apart from its obvious shock-horror angle, the image of a young woman going mad in enforced solitude while the familiar...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 7/1992

New Year's Concert in Vienna

I have seen many Vienna New Year Concerts on television over the past 40 years‚ and I have heard recordings...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 1/2001

Perahia plays Handel and Scarlatti

This is a very fine recording of the piano, and if that seems an oblique comment with which to begin...

Reviewed in issue 5/1997

Epitaph - Medieval Iceland

No sound could more powerfully evoke Iceland than that of wind and waves breaking, and the dipping contours and cadences...

Reviewed in issue 7/1999

Romancing Rebellion - 1798 and the Songs of Thomas Moore

In June 1798 the town of Wexford declared itself a republic, and on May 30th, 1998, the rebellion of that...

Reviewed in issue 8/1999

Mozart Piano Sonatas, Vol. 4

Something about the key of D major seems to trigger off Mitsuko Uchida's adrenalin. The energy level in the Rondo...

Reviewed in issue 7/1987

Lorentzen A Wondrous Love Story

Lorentzen’s Tristan Variations is an intriguing concept that manifestly fails to deliver. Having reduced his real life/mythical examples to the...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 5/1998

Music for Brass and Soprano

Anyone looking at the sleeve who thinks Elisabeth Soderstrom is going to give a recital upon the bass tuba will...

Reviewed in issue 10/1985

R. Strauss Lieder

A great deal of intelligence is shown here in surmounting the fact that Hendricks simply doesn't have the wherewithal to...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1991

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