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Rossini (La) Cenerentola

This is a truly marvellous performance on all counts – staging, conducting and singing. Sir Peter Hall’s direction, his first...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/2006

Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos 4 and 5

With this release Yevgeny Sudbin and Osmo Vänskä launch their Beethoven concerto cycle in a novel and intriguing fashion. Going...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/2011

Britten; Rubbra (The) Complete Recorder Works

As this Dutton survey shows, Rubbra held an especial fondness for the recorder, which was bolstered further still by his...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/2005

Briquet Organ Works

Orff conceived a number of choral works with piano and percussion accompaniment in mind, but Carmina Burana was not one...

Reviewed in issue 3/1996

Brahms/Dvorák Concertos

Hearing this recording of the Dvorak Concerto reminded me of that memorable Prom back in 1968 when a tearful Mstislav...

Reviewed in issue 5/1994

Mozart/Brahms Clarinet Quintets

David Shifrin and the Emerson play both works more or less as I imagine them in my mind’s ear –...

Reviewed in issue 9/1999

Smetana The Two Widows

Smetana's delightful comedy is very welcome back in the domestic catalogue, even if this recording is less than ideal. The...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/1993

Zemlinsky Lyric Symphony

Recordings of Zemlinsky’s Lyric Symphony don’t always take the obvious step of adding the movements from Berg’s Lyric Suite, one...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/2009

Diamond Symphonies Nos 2 & 4

Here is another welcome Naxos reinstatement. Two-thirds of a first-rate David Diamond disc that originally appeared on the Delos label...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 9/2004

Jommelli Il Vologeso

Once upon a time largely confined to text-book references, the operas of Gluck’s contemporary, Nicolo Jommelli, are now heard with...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1999

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