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Handel Admeto

Admeto is perhaps the best of five operas Handel composed in the late 1720s for a cast that included the...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 7/2007

Mozart Piano Concertos

The names of Andras Schiff and Sandor Vegh are distinguished ones in this repertory, and collectors following their series of...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1991

Tchaikovsky Piano Concertos Nos 1-3

After his recent surprisingly lacklustre Liszt concertos, Marshev returns to top form, all guns blazing, with the three piano concertos...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 13/2007

Viva VERDI!

These are admirable issues on every count. They remind us conclusively that the first half of the last century was...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/2001

Verdi La forza del destino

A period of sustained listening to Verdi's four great mid-period operas—Boccanegra (revised version). Ballo, Forza del destino and Don Carlos—is...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1993

Ravel The Last Six Compositions

If one wanted to quibble, these aren’t exactly Ravel’s “last six compositions, 1928-34”, as the disc proclaims, since Ronsard a...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1996

Mattheson Christmas Oratorio

Mattheson is best remembered for his duel with Handel after a row during his opera Cleopatra. Some argue that he...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 4/2010

Jorma Hynninen sings Opera Arias

Hynninen, who first made his name outside his native Finland in operas by his compatriots, has now established himself as...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1990

British Light Music Classics, Volume 3

This third Hyperion helping of British Light Music Classics proves no less rewarding than its predecessors. The almost obligatory pieces...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 5/2000

Dvorák Cello Concerto; Strauss, R Don Quixote

A musically interesting coupling, given that for the Strauss the soloist is (or should be) a first among equals, whereas...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 4/2004

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