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Grieg Complete Songs, Vol 4

The important item here is the complete set of the Op 33 songs. Without wanting to dismiss the very real...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 2/2003

Verdi Don Carlo

There can never be enough recordings of this endlessly fascinating opera. Haitink’s new set was recorded simultaneously with a live...

Reviewed in issue 12/1997

Grieg Works arranged for Brass Ensemble

Let me say immediately that the playing here is refined and has a genuine sense of style, and the recording,...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1989

Mozart Opera Arias

Losing nothing of her freshness and individuality, Lucia Popp has delighted us in recent years with the judicious extension of...

Reviewed by jswain in issue: 12/1983

Stockausen: Samstag aus Licht

Samstag—''Saturday''—the second part of Stockhausen's seven-opera cycle Licht, was written between 1981 and 1984 and first staged complete in Milan...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/1989

Crusell Clarinet Concertos 1 & 3

As in the so-called Grand Concerto—No. 2 in F minor—which she recorded earlier for Hyperion (A66088, 12/83; CD CDA66088, 8/85)....

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1986

Mozart Church Sonatas

Quite why performers and record companies insist on treating Mozart's Church (or ''Epistle'') Sonatas as if they were organ concertos...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 3/1993

Microcosm Concerto

This peculiar collection played by Mara Galassi, with occasional support from Giovanni Togni, is subtitled “Harp Music by GF Haendel”,...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 6/2010

Clarinet Celebration

As various recent versions have shown, Weber's Grand duo concertant is open to rather more interpretations than its unusual, highly...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/1991

Cantemir Istanbul - The Book of Science of Music

On tour in Istanbul, Jordi Savall was given a copy of the first modern edition of a music collection assembled...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 7/2010

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