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French Bonbons

This splendid collection is a worthy successor to many nostalgically re-membered LPs by Paul Paray and others, and if I...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/2000

Donizetti Lucrezia Borgia

Neither of these recordings met with a really enthusiastic review when first released on LP: Andrew Porter found Caballe undramatic,...

Reviewed in issue 9/1990

Bruch; Tchaikovsky Violin Concertos

This is the fifth disc that Nicola Benedetti has recorded for DG since her remarkable win in the BBC Young...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/2010

Pavel Nersessian plays Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty

Pavel Nersessian is a 33-year-old Russian pianist and a prize-winner in many competitions. He is also the sort of free...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/1998

Percussion XX

From the title, and the fact that its one of the first discs to bear the DVD-Audio logo, you might...

Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 1/2000

Shostakovich Orchestral Works

Ashkenazy's Shostakovich Eighth steers a middle course between the glacial stoicism of Maxim Shostakovich and the fresher, more urgent 'authenticity'...

Reviewed in issue 4/1994

Puccini Songs & Rare Pieces

Though I would have preferred a more warmly Italianate soprano tone for this repertory than Roberta Alexander's, this is an...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1988

Haydn Symphonies 93 & 99

Solti is an amazingly unpredictable conductor. His early international reputation rests on his exhilaratingly brilliant survey of Wagner's Ring cycle,...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/1987

German Operetta Overtures

No, these are not all operetta overtures, a point recognized in the typography for the word ‘Operetta’ on the jewel-case,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1999

None but the lonely heart

It is now 13 years since Amanda Roocroft recorded two operatic recitals that I found so difficult to recommend, the...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/2008

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