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Corigliano Orchestral & Vocal Works

The Clarinet Concerto of 1977 remains Corigliano's best-known piece with two recordings (New World/Koch International, 5/88; RCA, 4/89) and a...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 5/1991

Piston Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2; Fantasia

Piston wrote his First Violin Concerto in 1939. It has been recorded at least once before now, surprisingly in England....

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1999

Mayr Che Originali!

If the shennanigans at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden had happened 200 years ago we might even now be...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 13/1999

Bax/Howells Choral Works

This is the third record in which the Finzi Singers have linked Howells with one of his contemporaries, Vaughan Williams...

Reviewed in issue 6/1993

Marcella Sembrich Recordings 1904-08

The pre-electrically recorded female voice is an instrument in its own right. If neither of the two representatives here is...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Mahler Symphony No 7

I still have certain reservtions about Haitink's broadening of some tempos in this re-make of his memorably cogent earlier recording...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/1984

Bach Complete Cantatas, Vol. 10: Nos 2, 20, 44, 73, 101, 119, 130, 134a, 180

Ton Koopman’s quasi-chronological cantata series has now reached a point where the end of the first cycle of cantatas (composed...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Marina Mescheriakova sings Soprano Arias

Naxos knows what it is doing by placing the two Russian items and Elisabetta’s scena at the head of Marina...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/2004

Beautiful Image - Diana Montague

Opera Rara and Chandos's Opera in English series are two wings of one bird flying high in both of these...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 6/2000

Verdi I Due Foscari

Any chance of hearing this opera should be eagerly grasped. Even today it is vastly underrated. It deserves to rank...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1989

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