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Review of Staud Works

Staud Works

On reading Carsten Fastner’s profile of a composer who ‘consistently repudiates [the] complacent eclecticism which several of his colleagues use...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 10/2004

Review of Bach Organ Sonatas

Bach Organ Sonatas

Notwithstanding the uncertainty over the origins of Bach's Trio Sonatas for organ (and Peter Williams discusses this in his typically...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/1990

Review of Dufay Secular Music

Dufay Secular Music

This recording first appeared 17 years ago, and the passage of time hasn’t diminished the grandeur of the achievement of...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/1997

Review of Hindemith Violin Concerto; Symphony

Hindemith Violin Concerto; Symphony

I have never understood why Hindemith's Violin Concerto—that in C sharp written in 1939 rather than the 1925 Kammermusik No....

Reviewed in issue 4/1995

Review of Beethoven Piano Sonatas

Beethoven Piano Sonatas

A gilels record was always a special event. In the first place it was gratifying to have a significant addition...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1985

Review of Wagner Arias & Duets

Wagner Arias & Duets

This is a generous but not particularly essential portion of Flagstad's releases. Her pre-war and wartime Victors have never seemed...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1990

Review of Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor

Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor

Anyone who has a copy of the October 1979 issue will find my favourable views on this performance expressed at...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1987

Review of Beethoven; Mozart Violin Sonatas

Beethoven; Mozart Violin Sonatas

Exemplary clarity, but the insistent thrust in Mozart’s fast movements is wearing. Rémy Cardinale and Hélène Schmitt exult in precision...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 9/2011

Review of Bellini Norma

Bellini Norma

Any production of Norma stands or falls on the performance of the title-role. In this attractive but ultimately bizarre and...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 11/2006

Review of Elgar Symphony No 2

Elgar Symphony No 2

Further proof that Sir Edward Downes is an Elgarian to be reckoned with. His Conifer Classics Enigma (1/91), full of...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/1994


 

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