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Wagner Der fliegende Holländer

Singers, conductor, chorus, orchestra and engineers combine to make this the most successful recording of the work to date. In...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1994

Cage Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano

This is at least the eighth recording of Cage’s 1948 classic in the current British catalogue, a situation unthinkable even...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 2/1999

Tartini Violin Concertos, Op. 1

Tartini’s Op. 1, containing 12 violin concertos, was published in Amsterdam, probably in 1728, though other slightly later dates have...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1997

Kurtág; Schubert Piano Works

This prickly, oddly disconcerting disc seeks connections or ‘intersections’ between Schubert and Kurtág. For Fredrick Ullén, such seeming disharmony is...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2004

Schumann: Symphonies & Orchestral Works

Ivan March described the Marriner approach as ''Mendelssohnian'', and that just about sums it up. This is Schumann with a...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 1/1989

Brahms Trios

Despite its more apt coupling, this new recording of Brahms's Horn Trio does not rival the much praised 1969 version...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 7/1986

Verdi (Un) Ballo in Maschera

This Ballo and Boccanegra, both previously available on VHS, do not show the Metropolitan in best light. Faggioni’s Ballo, located...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/2002

Russian Easter Liturgy

We should surely now have reached the stage at which we can expect discs of Orthodox chant to be well...

Reviewed in issue 10/1993

Baroque Mandolin Concertos

The mandolin shares the violin's tuning but not the extent of its repertory, one reason why it is so agreeably...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 6/1986

Sibelius Incidental Music

Over the last 10 or 15 years Sibelius’s extensive output of incidental music has become available in a bewildering array...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2002

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