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Gounod Faust

Let me say at the outset that this is the most satisfying performance of Gounod's favourite opera yet to appear...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1987

Anglebert Harpsichord Works and Airs after Lully

This two-CD set includes performances of both Lully’s original opera orchestra music and Anglebert’s harpsichord transcriptions. To them, Céline Frisch...

Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 11/2005

Ninon Vallin recital

On that proverbial desert island, one would indubitably wish to have at least one record by Ninon Vallin, and what...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1986

American Chamber Works

George Rochberg created quite a scandal when he moved away from writing serial music in the late-1960s to return towards...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 7/1991

BRITTEN Songs & Proverbs of William Blake and other songs

Sternly, even fiercely standing its ground, the Blake cycle is one of Britten’s most unaccommodating works. Closest in its own...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/2010

Schubert Lieder

My notes on this marvellous issue are littered with amazed adjectives. Fassbaender's daring, all-in style precisely matched, indeed encouraged by...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1992

Turina Chamber Works

At the première in Paris of Joaquín Turina’s Piano Quintet‚ Isaac Albéniz‚ arriving late‚ asked the person next to him...

Reviewed in issue 10/2002

Brahms Symphony No 2; Haydn Variations

Boult conducts the first movement of the symphony at a fastish tempo, and takes the repeat. The playing is a...

Reviewed in issue 5/1989

Vaughan Williams/Elgar/Butterworth Songs

Yet another admirable British Composers collection. The Tear/Handley Elgar and Butterworth items (rarities all—these were, I believe, premiere recordings) were...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/1994

Bowles Songs and Chamber Works

This is the third collection of Paul Bowles’s music that I have heard in the past few months (see reviews...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1996

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