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Wagner Orchestral Works

The born-again New Queen's Hall Orchestra and Barry Wordsworth were first in the field with a whole disc of period...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/1995

Purcell Quartet plays Buxtehude and Weckman

Buxtehude’s mesmerising Passion cantata cycle Membra Jesu nostri (1680) has been recorded frequently by forces either intimate (one voice per...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 3/2011

Shostakovich Violin Concerto No 1; Violin Sonata

Leila Josefowicz gives an effective shape to the Concerto’s soliloquising first movement where Maxim Vengerov creates a more powerful but...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 7/2006

Berio Complete Solo Piano Works

Given that line is as important to Berio as to Bellini, it’s not surprising that he has written relatively little...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/1997

Mozart Le Nozze di Figaro

Here's another piece of operatic history preserved for posterity. This performance, in German, is a record of the cast to...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1990

Jackson Daniel in Babylon

Given first in the new Coventry Cathedral, the monodrama gained a sequence of motets in York and in this version...

Reviewed in issue 13/1998

Magdalena Kozená - Sings Gluck, Mozart & Myslivecek arias

On this CD you will find some of the most compelling singing of late 18th-century operatic music that you are...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/2002

Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky; Scythian Suite

At the chill opening of Jarvi's fine new version of Alexander Nevsky one can really feel the bitter wind of...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/1988

Schumann & Wolf Lieder Recital

Per Vollestad is a young Norwegian baritone with a voice peculiarly similar to that of Hakan Hagegard. It is a...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1989

Praise to the Lord

The Choirmaster's Companion (a suppositious, non-existent publication as far as I know) must contain a sentence or two on hymns:...

Reviewed in issue 7/1990

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