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Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique; (La) Mort de Cléopâtre

Recorded in Rotterdam in March 2010, this release arrived in London in between two LPO concerts of French repertoire by...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 5/2011

Verdi La traviata

This live performance of 1939 reminds us what we have lost and gained in performing Verdi—and perhaps all opera. You...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1992

Te Deum

This is the ‘official Millenium CD of the Vatican City, made “to celebrate the Holy Year 2000”’, and the recording,...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: /2000

Brahms Horn Trio; Serenade

First the rarity – Brahms’s D major Serenade, familiar enough, of course, in orchestral dress, but first conceived as a...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 12/2000

Rubinstein plays Grieg & Tchaikovsky Concertos

The recording of the Grieg Concerto is circa 1956, but the quality is remarkably good, with plenty of presence and...

Reviewed in issue 8/1986

Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor

Online discographies (including off-air material) list no fewer than 11 Lucia recordings by Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge from the...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2011

Glass The Voyage

I wonder how many people have a clear recollection of the massive celebrations of the “Discoveries” in 1992. Hundreds of...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 10/2006

Orchestral & Vocal Works

This is exceptionally good work undoubtedly the best indication to date that Jarvi may yet make a 'major league' Mahlerian....

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 3/1993

Handel Saul

Here we have a further recording from Germany of Handel’s tragic masterpiece of 1738. Like the Neumann recording, it was...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 6/1999

Hosokawa; Otaka; Takemitsu Orchestral Works

Although the chief attraction of this disc will undoubtedly be the two rarely heard scores by Takemitsu, the main fare...

Reviewed in issue 6/2001

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