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R. Strauss/Wagner Lieder

Here is a discovery, perhaps the most promising Jugendlich-Dramatische soprano to burst on the scene since Studer. With a full,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1994

Tippett Divertimento on Sellinger's Round; Ritual Dances

To mark the Tippett centenary EMI Classics adds these three reissues to the pair of discs already available: vocal music...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/2005

Verdi Otello

Anyone who thinks Toscanini, Karajan and Carlos Kleiber are the only conductors who have known how to conduct Verdi's penultimate...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1991

Unpublished Lieder & songs 1957-64

This is a slightly perplexing record, but one I have now played several times, with increasing pleasure. ‘Unpublished’ is a...

Reviewed in issue 1/2001

Mozart Don Giovanni

Somewhat muzzy orchestral sound aside, this long neglected set, dating from 1953, has a deal to offer. Max Rudolf’s view...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/2002

John Williams The Seville Concert

The Usher Waltz of Koshkin is the only item not previously recorded by Williams; this disc is not, however, a...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 1/1994

Mozart Edition, Vol.14

The recordings here come from different locations and range in date from 1969 to 1987, the former applying to just...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1991

Jochen Kowalski Lieder Recital

This of course is not the first Dichterliebe recording by a countertenor or alto. The Hungaroton version by Paul Esswood...

Reviewed in issue 12/1992

Dyson Symphony in G

Sir George Dyson's Symphony, composed in 1937, was still heard in the 1940s. Christopher Palmer in his excellent note for...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/1994

Hymns and Psalms from Winchester

Buy this, may I suggest, and save it for a few days (you won’t have to wait long) until one...

Reviewed in issue 8/1996

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