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Wagner Parsifal

Every recording of Parsifal has brought out the best in its interpreters, so that, while I remain loyal to the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1986

Respighi Ballets

Respighi wrote these three scores as a triple bill for Ileana Leonidov, a Russian dancer (''of exceptional beauty but limited...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 11/1992

Massenet Werther

My only small criticism of this CD reissue of Sir Colin Davis's admirable Werther is the break point between the...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 2/1987

R.Danielpour Concerto for Orchestra; Anima Mundi

A new brand of concert music is sweeping the US circuit, where Richard Danielpour is among the most sought-after composers...

Reviewed in issue 9/1997

Guastavino Canciones Argentinas

The songs of Guastavino were brought back home with him by Frederick Fuller in the 1940s but have been slow...

Reviewed in issue 1/1994

Schönberg, C (Les) Misérables 25th Anniversary

“Dream the dream”, it says on the album sleeve and indeed all the publicity for the 25th anniversary production and...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2010

Mozart Opera Arias

My thoughts on this recital are substantially those of JBS when reviewing the LP last December, though were I doing...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1984

Chopin Études, Op.10, Op.25

Here, remarkably, are Maurizio Pollini’s first thoughts on the Chopin Etudes. Recorded by EMI in 1960, the genesis of this...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/2012

Pärt Spiegel im Spiegel

Such is the continuing vogue for the musical world’s favourite religio-minimalist that it seems even his slightest creations have been...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 4/2008

Piazzolla (Le) Grand Tango

After recent British and Finnish takes on Piazzolla for quintet and accordion, here is a disc of (mostly) arrangements for...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 9/2004

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