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Furtwängler - Live Recordings

This wide-ranging collection of live recordings gives the most vivid portrait of one of the very greatest conductors of the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2003

Bizet Carmen

The pre-overture prelude in the Francesco Rosi film of Carmen is enough to turn anyone into an animal rights activist....

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 13/2011

MacDowell Piano Concertos

Edward MacDowell wrote his only two concertos in the early 1880s when he was himself in his early twenties. They...

Reviewed in issue 12/1986

Mozart Don Giovanni

Klemperer was closely associated with Mozart’s dramma giocosa from the earliest days of his career, often staging the work in...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1999

Mozart Die Zauberflöte (highlights)

Highlights from the ''Flute'' make more sense than those from other operas as all the musical numbers are self-contained. As...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1986

Beethoven/Bruch Violin Concertos

Kyung Wha Chung has recorded both of these central concertos before, but in this generous and attractive coupling these EMI...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1992

Willaert/Rore/Lassus/Manchicourt Sacred Choral Works

None of the composers in this recital have received the sort of coverage they deserve (no, not even Lassus: how...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 1/1999

Liszt Piano Concertos

These are old recordings by CD standards, and one is aware of background tape hiss in such passages as the...

Reviewed in issue 12/1984

Wuorinen Piano Works

This latest product of Alan Feinberg’s genius is quite different from the eccentric Argo anthologies I have increasingly admired (1/91,...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 9/1996

Joseph James Requiem after J S Bach

This is the work of two composers, Stanley Joseph Seeger and Francis James Brown (their middle names provide the nom...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 5/1999

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