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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Original Soundtrack

Mad World was the first film to be presented in the modified single-lens version of Cinerama and remains one of...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Rosa Ponselle Opera & Song Recital

There are those who say that once they had heard Ponselle in the flesh they never wanted to hear her...

Reviewed in issue 10/1989

Schoeck Penthesilea

Schoeck's one-act opera, Penthesilea is an astonishing and masterly score. It seems barely credible that a work so gripping in...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1995

Motets of the 17th Century

On the strength of its title alone, this disc has much to recommend it: seventeenth-century music from the 'regions' habitually...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/1993

Schubert Winterreise

I should have learnt long ago how foolish it is to make an 'outright recommendation' in these pages, because as...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1989

Rossini Armida

Rossini's Armida is one of the finest of musical realisations of Tasso's tale of the temptress with supernatural powers. Only...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/2000

Bezaly & Brautigam - Masterworks for Flute and Piano

The glowing richness of Sharon Bezaly’s tone is immediately striking. It may be something of an acquired taste compared to...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 6/2006

The Jerome Kern Collection

Prior to writing this review I had heard this recording when it was being played in a Cornish tea-shop where...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 3/1995

Berlioz - Les Troyens (English)

This 1957 production of Berlioz’s epic five-act opera was the first modern attempt to stage the whole work in one...

Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 10/2009

Violin Transcriptions by Heifetz

It is interesting to compare Heifetz's transcriptions with those of Kreisler. Whereas the latter was an accomplished composer, whose original...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 12/1988

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