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Rimsky-Korsakov Piano Trio; Shchedrin Echo Sonata

Rimsky-Korsakov was quite realistic about his limitations as a composer of chamber music. Having spent much of the summer of...

Reviewed in issue 8/1989

Verdi Un ballo in maschera

It would be hard to assemble a stronger cast for this opera than Decca have done for this new set....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1985

Borodin Symphonies Nos 1 and 2

Evgeni Svetlanov spent his last years guest-conducting, having been unceremoniously removed from the post-Soviet equivalent of the USSR State Symphony...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2004

Esposito Piano Works

Scarcely even a name in England, the Naples-born Michele Esposito (the 70th anniversary of whose death falls this year) holds...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1999

Mahler Song Cycles

Boulez is the focal point of this new DG recording, unlike the comparative versions listed where the singers take centre...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 3/2005

Fugue Around the Clock

Even with a snappy title, 70 minutes of four-part fugues played on recorders might not be everyone’s idea of fun....

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/2003

Bruckner Symphony No 9

Old-fashioned breadth of utterance has often been one of the hallmarks of Jeffrey Tate's conducting of the classic symphonic repertoire...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1991

Dvorák The Cunning Peasant

The Cunning Peasant was the first of Dvorak’s operas to be performed abroad (Dresden in 1882, four years after the...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/1996

Handel Messiah (250th Anniversary Performance)

Although this live recording from Dublin bills itself as ''The 250th Anniversary Performance'', it makes neither authenticity nor a sense...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 2/1993

Handel Alcina

The late‚ acerbically trenchant critic Hans Keller chose an uncharacteristically mild adjective when he described opera production as one of...

Reviewed in issue 6/2002

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