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Denisov Songs

Edison Denisov, like other Russian composers of his generation (he was born in 1929), was already approaching maturity when he...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1990

Gluck Alceste

The recording of Alceste in 1956 brought together some of the artists who had performed and recorded Dido and Aeneas...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 13/2008

Handel Neun Deutsche Arien

These are pleasant enough performances of Handel’s Nine German Arias, enchanting settings of his friend Barthold Brockes’s verses celebrating the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 5/2009

Chopin Piano Works, Vol. 1

I haven't the slightest doubt in my mind that Kissin is one of the greatest talents to have emerged in...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 5/1994

Braga Santos Symphonies Nos 1 & 5.

Portugal has never figured large in our musical consciousness in England, and until very recently the name of Joly Braga...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 7/1998

Barenboim conducts Mozart

Venue, orchestra and conductor/soloist make this DVD virtually self-recommending, especially if you like your Mozart spacious and urbane. There are...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 5/2011

Puccini Gloria

An earlier version of this celebratory mass, completed when Puccini was still only 21, was also on the Erato label,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1984

Zelenka Orchestral Works, Volume 1

Zelenka was one of Bach’s and Telemann’s most musically colourful contemporaries. He was born near Prague but based himself in...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Lotte Lehmann in Opera, Vol.1

Listening to this Nimbus issue, one has immediately to ask again what one wants from one’s transfers of extremely ancient,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1996

Cage conducts Cage

Originally Mode’s second release, issued on four LPs in 1986, the 1983 performances of Atlas eclipticalis and Winter Music played...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 9/2007

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