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Italian Orchestral Works

Riccardo Muti takes time out here to present some of the lesser known, rarely heard orchestral scores of his fellow...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 4/1994

Great Conductors of the 20th Century - Karl Böhm

Noting, perhaps, that it was the Feast of the Assumption, Karl Böhm ended his Salzburg Festival concert on August 15,...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/2004

Nielsen Complete Piano Works

Not so long ago, Nielsen’s piano music was comparatively rarely found on disc, aside from isolated issues of selections such...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 4/2009

Cavalli (Gli) Amori d'Apollo e di Dafne

In 1637 the first public opera house in the world, the S Cassiano in Venice, opened its doors. Cavalli’s first...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 4/2007

Dvorák Stabat Mater

In an interview included as the final track of this pair of discs, Robert Shaw regrets that there have been...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/2000

Verdi (I) due Foscari and Attila

I due Foscari won a respectful hearing on the occasion of this rare revival in 1988, with a warm reception...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/2005

Verdi Otello

Just as Othello is a difficult play to bring off in the theatre, so Otello is a difficult opera to...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1994

Mendelssohn Piano Concertos Nos 1 and 2

These are eminently musical readings of Mendelssohn’s works for piano and orchestra. German pianist Ragna Schirmer has been quietly forging...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 5/2007

A Christmas Collection-Schütz and Gabrieli

This handsome anthology of Schutz’s Christmas music was recorded last year during the festive season. The selection spans the whole...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/1997

John Cage Thirteen Harmonies

For his bicentennial celebration, Apartment House 1776, Cage took 44 choral pieces by a group of colonial composers, including William...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 11/1995

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