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Renée Fleming - Verismo

There are still those who shrink from operas of the verismo school as they might from a huddle of knife-carrying...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 13/2009

Barber Symphonies 1 & 2 etc

A protege of Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa, and winner of the 1989 Koussevitzky Conducting Prize at Tanglewood, Marin Alsop...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/2000

Schoenberg; Schulhoff Chamber Works

These remasterings of recordings made in 1982 (Schoenberg) and 1992 (Schulhoff) bring together three distinctive expressions of 1920s modernism. Ervín...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 7/2009

Mozart Piano Concertos 20 & 23

It is not all that often that one feels from the opening passages of a performance that matters are in...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 1/1992

Purcell Anthems for the Chapel Royal

''It is a staggering fact'', Peter le Huray's note tells us, ''that, apart from the funeral anthem Thou knowest, Lord,...

Reviewed in issue 9/1987

Bizet Carmen

Don José was the role in which Franco Corelli made his stage début at Spoleto in 1951. This broadcast from...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 8/2004

Piano Works for Three Hands

Younger readers should perhaps be reminded of the international reputation long enjoyed by Cyril Smith and Phyllis Sellick as a...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1989

Bach Cantatas, Vol. 6

If not strictly chronological, Vol. 6 represents the next logical stage in Ton Koopman’s exhaustive series of Bach’s complete cantatas....

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 4/1998

Lehár Der Zarewitsch

English-language studio performances of late Lehar operettas make a welcome novelty at a time when such works are increasingly neglected...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 1/1997

Telemann Choral Music

This is one of the most interesting Telemann discs to have been issued recently. It contains three vocal works written...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1991

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