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Cilea Adriana Lecouvrier

Despite some kind words in these pages, the previous issue of Adriana Lecouvreur on DVD (Image Entertainment, 12/00) was not...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/2003

Vivaldi String Concertos

At last a Vivaldi disc worthy of the composer's 250th anniversary. L'Europa Galante is an Italian ensemble previously unknown to...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1991

Jussi Björling - Arias, Lieder and Songs

Bjorling collections on CD are hardly in short supply, but, on the principle that if you're going to have too...

Reviewed in issue 9/1994

London Mozart Players: Complete HMV Stereo Recordings

This admirable collection marks both the 60th anniversary of the London Mozart Players and the 100th anniversary of Harry Blech’s...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 2/2010

Puccini Madama Butterfly

Sinopoli's Madama Butterfly is very moving, often extremely beautiful (not even Karajan makes Puccini's orchestra sound so ravishing) and, in...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1988

Vaughan Williams/Bax Orchestral Works

Making its long-overdue first appearance on CD, Barbirolli's much-loved 1962 Philharmonia account of VW's No. 5 has come up very...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/1995

Music of Arnold Schoenberg, Volume 4

Two extremes of Schoenberg's musical personality are on offer here: the one that could spice up Brahms's G minor Piano...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 6/2000

R. Strauss Orchestral Works

Usually associated with Americana, the Seattle Symphony Orchestra prove highly competent, if somewhat chromium-plated Straussians in this idiosyncratically-designed twofer (mine...

Reviewed in issue 9/1999

Shostakovich Piano Quintet; String Quartets Nos 1 and 12

Perhaps it’s no surprise to find Stravinsky criticising Prokofiev’s Soviet output as ‘provincial’, but Prokofiev could be equally nonplussed by...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2005

Liszt Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

Claire-Marie Le Guay is a Paris-trained pianist who has recorded Liszt’s complete Transcendental Etudes, Stravinsky’s Petrushka, the Dutilleux Sonata and...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2003

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