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Bizet Carmen

We have, paradoxically, been lucky and unlucky in recent years with recordings of Carmen. Every performance in the catalogue has...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1983

Haydn String Quartets op 55, 1-3

The violins and viola of Meta4 play standing. The musicians say that by so doing, they feel “a huge difference,...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 10/2009

Houdy Harp Works

Born in Rennes in 1929, Pierick Houdy was only 10 when he entered the Paris Conservatoire, where his teachers included...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2004

Tippett A Child of Our Time

At its simplest, the choice is between Previn's restraint and Davis's robustness. Previn's relative coolness on his RPO release, confirmed...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/1987

Shostakovich Orchestral Works

What a very perplexing piece of music Shostakovich's Fifteenth Symphony is—so enticing to the would-be clue-breaker, but in the end...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 5/1991

S.S. Wesley Anthems and Organ Works

Donald Hunt has made a special study of Wesley, and it is fitting that his should be the choir to...

Reviewed in issue 10/1991

Verdi Macbeth

Few conductors excite such widely contrasted opinions as Giuseppe Sinopoli, and I am sure that this electrifying new set of...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/1984

Italian Flute Concertos

The eighteenth-century concertos on this disc are all rarities, even the Vivaldi, a piece which is listed as lost in...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 13/1997

Hummel Fortepiano Sonatas

Thanks largely to CD, the reputation of Johann Nepomuk Hummel as one of the most successful of Beethoven’s contemporaries has...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/2010

Debussy Piano Duet Works

The main interest in this issue lies in the piano-duet version of La mer and one must say at once...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 8/1986

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