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Fritz Wunderlich sings Opera Arias

These extracts, culled from the radio archives, will be manna to the many admirers of Fritz Wunderlich. They derive from...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1989

Janácek/Dvorák Sacred Choral Works

The Glagolitic Mass has been recorded by two British-based conductors, Mackerras and Rattle, as well as several of their Czech...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 7/1991

Lehár Tatjana

Franz Lehár was a reluctant operetta composer. His ambitions lay in serious music. When his three-act Kuku?ka was produced in...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 12/2002

Arnold Orchestral Dances

The late Trevor Harvey gave a warm and well-deserved welcome to the English, Scottish and Cornish Dances, when these recordings,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/1990

Szymanowski Complete Violin & Piano Works

Szymanowski’s violin and piano works owe much to the example of his violinist compatriot Pawe³ Kochan´ ski, clearly an artist...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 7/2009

James Levine's 25th Anniversary Met Opera Gala

Out come the stars, one by one or two by two and then six of them in a galaxy. Some...

Reviewed in issue 12/1996

Shchedrin Concertos for Orchestra Nos 4 and 5

Rodion Shchedrin’s long and varied worklist includes five Concertos for Orchestra, a form (if it can be called that) which...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/2010

Mattheson (Der) Liebreiche

Johann Mattheson (1681-1764) was a respected musical theorist and a friend of the young Handel in Hamburg. The two famously...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2009

Finzi Dies natalis

Though Dies natalis was first sung and first recorded by a soprano (Elsie Suddaby and Joan Cross respectively), it is...

Reviewed in issue 9/1997

Schubert Complete Lieder, Vol.30

Where other CD booklets include a note on Winterreise – 800 words, 1,200 if you’re lucky – Graham Johnson gives...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 1/1998

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