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Monteverdi Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria

Forty years after Raymond Leppard astonished Glyndebourne audiences with reconstructions of Monteverdi’s two late operas‚ the debate he provoked about...

Reviewed in issue 9/2001

Mendelssohn & Shostakovich Chamber Works

A curious coupling, you might think, but it's a thought-provoking one: the players almost seem to be challenging the easy...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/1989

Obrecht Missa Caput & Salve Regina

With the Ockeghem commemoration behind us, I look forward to 2005 and the opportunity it offers to lavish the same...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 6/1998

Monteverdi L'Incoronazione di Poppea

Nobody has done more for Venetian opera since the last war than Raymond Leppard, a greatly gifted musician sadly lost...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 9/2004

Liszt Études d'exécution transcendente (1851 version)

Naxos’s project to record Liszt’s complete piano music using a number of pianists flies apace (Vols. 3 and 4 are...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/1997

Finzi Choral Works

St John’s Choir in Christopher Robinson’s time as Director has distinguished itself in many ways but perhaps most especially in...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/2002

Vienna State Opera Live, Vol.19

This volume of the Vienna archive recordings celebrates the art of Svanholm, the Swedish singer who shared Heldentenor roles with...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1996

Chopin Polish Songs. Viardot Chopin Song Arrangements

Chopin's heart belongs to Warsaw - quite literally: it lies as a relic in the Church of the Holy Cross....

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 2/2000

Bouteiller Requiem pour Voix d'Hommes

The Requiem of Pierre Bouteiller, I’m sorry to say, put me in mind of Bernard Shaw’s comment about Brahms’s German...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 2/2011

Paul McCartney Standing Stone

While our fascination with The Beatles is in part nostalgia for a generation’s shared past, it can scarcely be denied...

Reviewed in issue 11/1997

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