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Rossini (Il) Barbiere di Siviglia

We’ve cursed modern producers and their productions often enough, but credit where it is due, and here is a delight....

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 4/2004

Menotti (The) Telephone; Poulenc (La) Voix humaine

Menotti’s 1947 curtain-raiser about the girl who can’t be torn away from the telephone makes an ideal opera for television....

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 8/2006

Rachmaninov Aleko

Aleko is the first of Rachmaninov’s three short operas and the most formulaic in its layout – hardly surprising, given...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 5/2010

Inese Galante - Début Recital

This must be one of the most exciting debut recitals from any opera singer for a long time. I hope...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1995

Janácek String Quartets

The very qualities that have made the Alban Berg Quartet so superb in a series of performances of the German...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1995

Elgar The Starlight Express. Delius Hassan

It cannot be said that either of these works shows its composer at his best and thus it may seem...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/1990

Horovitz Alice in Wonderland (excs)

An Alice in Wonderland ballet! Now there, you would think, would be the obvious subject for a children's ballet with...

Reviewed in issue 12/1984

Ysaÿe Solo Violin Sonatas Op 27

It seems a great shame that the dedicatees of the Ysaÿe sonatas (including Kreisler, Szigeti, Enescu and Thibaut) never made...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 6/2003

Adams I was looking at the ceiling and then I saw the sky

John Adams’s stylistic range is vast, yet even in such a diverse output, I Was Looking at the Ceiling and...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2005

Grainger Edition, Vol. 14 - Chamber Works 2

If music is indeed a kind of food, Grainger is hardly one of its main courses; but he makes a...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 10/2000

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