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Brahms Complete Lieder Edition, Vol. 6

Of all the leading composers of Lieder‚ Brahms suffers more than any other through neglect‚ with so little of his...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

Tchaikovsky: Orchestral works

There is no doubt that this is a thrilling 1812. It has plenty of thrust and is extremely well played....

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1986

An Italian Songbook Cecilia Bartoli

The transforming power of imagination is rarely shown so clearly. On record and in recital these songs and their like...

Reviewed in issue 11/1997

Noel Coward Album

Every month seems to bring another significant CD from Bostridge. This one takes him into new territory – the songs...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/2002

Berg Orchestral & Chamber Works

This is an extraordinary issue of more than mere documentary interest. Older readers may remember hearing during the war Louis...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 6/1991

Bruckner Symphony No 7

Since there are no recommendable budget, let alone super-budget recordings of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony (the two listed above are both...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/1999

Conti Cantate con istromenti, Nos 1 - 4

A ubiquitous Viennese figure in the early 1700s, Francesco Conti was one of several gifted Italian Baroque composers who settled...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 2/2003

Rachmaninov/Tchaikovsky Piano Concertos

Charles Dutoit conducts the famous version of the Tchaikovsky B flat minor Concerto for Argerich on DG, but he has...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/1988

Strauss, R - Operatic Scenes

This disc opens in a spectacular fashion. Elektra’s great cry “Sei verflucht!” comes out of nowhere, followed by an almighty...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 9/2010

Wagner Arias

Here are nuggets of Dame Gwyneth in her most notable Wagner roles, for which her followers and friends will be...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1992

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