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Mozart Lieder & Concert Arias

To mark her seventy-fifth birthday EMI have produced this formidable tribute to Elisabeth Schwarzkopf's art. Each of these CDs is...

Reviewed in issue 12/1990

Bach Keyboard Works

My enthusiasm for these pianistically accomplished performances is muted by an assortment of infelicities, of which I list only a...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 12/1987

Alain Complete Organ Works

This is the most comprehensive and by far and away the most impressive recording yet of Alain’s organ music. Bowyer...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 7/1998

Paganini Violin Concertos Nos.1 & 2

Did Paganini play in tune? We’ll never know, of course, but he certainly set himself extraordinary challenges, and with most...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 9/2009

Stokowski Conducts

Easily the finest of these Stokowski reissues is the EMI Phoenixa ''Showcase'' collection. The recordings were made at the unlikely...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1992

Basque Music Collection, Vol 2 - Usandizaga

Of the six works here by the Basque composer Usandizaga (who died at the tragically early age of 28), the...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 3/1999

Messiah Remix

Is nothing sacred? When it came to sampling, stealing and re-spraying other people’s tunes, Baroque composers didn’t think so. I...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 1/2005

Mozart Violin Works

Philippe Graffin the violinist is rather at odds with Philippe Graffin the conductor. The violinist is in complete control of...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 9/2007

Verdi Aida

Tenors truly equipped to sing the role of Radames are few and far between. Caruso, Martinelli, Pertile, Lauri-Volpi, del Monaco...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1990

Bartók; Dutilleux; Stravinsky Works for Violin and Orchestra

The press blurb tells us that Henri Dutilleux conceived his moody and impassioned nocturne Sur le même accord ‘to suit...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 7/2005

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