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Arnold 75th Birthday tribute

It would be hard to imagine a more winning collection of Arnold’s works to celebrate his seventy-fifth birthday, exuberantly performed...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1996

Kagel Dance School

One might expect a Maurizio Kagel ballet to pointedly ask questions of the genre, and so it proves with Tantz-Schul,...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 4/2004

Bach Cantatas, Vol 3

The spread of locations – from Mühlhausen to Kirkwall – complements and intensifies the extraordinary range of cantatas in these...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 5/2008

Trumpet Concertos

Ole Edvard Antonsen is the latest of the young pretenders to Maurice Andre's throne, vacated last year when the doyen...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 2/1994

Szymanowski King Roger

This DVD has the market to itself. The reasons are not hard to find: Szymanowski’s opera, almost more an oratorio,...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 11/2010

Great Sopranos

This opens blissfully with Lehmann radiant of voice and spirit. Then Leider, pure and firm, tells Kundry's story of Herzeleide...

Reviewed in issue 2/1992

Caldara La Passione de Gesu Cristo

Vivaldi’s contemporary, Caldara, worked first in his native Venice, then in Rome until 1716 when, in mid-career, he moved to...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 5/1999

Mozart Die Entführung aus dem Serail

''Too many notes, my dear Mozart'', said the Emperor Joseph II—well, he probably didn't in reality, but the apocryphal story...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 11/1991

Butterworth (A) Shropshire Lad; Vaughan-Williams Songs of Travel

The Songs of Travel and six original songs from A Shropshire Lad are core works in the English song repertory,...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/2004

Brahms/Schumann Horn works

Though their composers are great names, not one of the works here is a repertory piece, and the reasons must...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 10/1993

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