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Nilsson sings Wagner

Something seems to have happened to these recordings over the years. Notes taken in the 1960s tell of ‘wobble’, a...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 1/2001

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

This is DVD usage at its most bog-standard. Man discovered seated at piano. Man plays piano (choice of six shots)....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 7/2004

Bruckner Symphony No 4

Daniel Barenboim used to talk of the challenge of playing Bruckner with the Orchestre de Paris. Nowadays, the Orchestre de...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/2004

Blackwood & Bridge Cello Sonatas

Easley Blackwood's Cello Sonata dates from 1985, and is one of five works written during the past decade in which...

Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 11/1992

Bach Cantatas, Vol 36

After the four fine cantatas set to libretti by Leipzig poet Marianne von Ziegler in Vol 35, the rich vein...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 3/2008

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra - About Baroque

The phenomenon of early instruments being used by contemporary composers is familiar enough, but a period orchestra? Supported by the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 4/2007

Boccherini Symphonies

This very welcome set brings Boccherini the symphonist back to the catalogue. Boccherini the symphonist?—well, he was not a symphonist...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/1986

Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras - excs

Isaac Karabtchevsky’s recordings of the nine Bachianas (not complete as they excluded the piano and vocal originals of Nos 4...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 9/2007

Renaissance Masterpieces

Roughly 150 years separate Ockeghem's Intemerata Dei mater and Joao IV of Portugal's Crux fidelis. This sample of renaissance motets...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 3/1995

Bartók The Wooden Prince

Bartok’s ‘dance pantomime’ The Wooden Prince is a fascinating score: fascinating for its resonances of his other two stage works...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/1997

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