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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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