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French and Spanish Songs

A company calling itself Orfeo should have some good singing in its catalogue, and the name of Margaret Price should...

Reviewed by jswain in issue: 4/1984

Offenbach (Les) Contes d'Hoffmann, 'The Tales of Hoffmann'

These three sets were all ‘remakes’ for thethen-new stereo market. The recordings they replaced disappeared from the catalogues for decades,...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 6/2003

Weill (Der) Neue Orpheus; Royal Palace

The opening chorus, with its jagged march rhythm and jazzy orchestration, positively screams the composer’s name. Royal Palace, to a...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 1/2005

Rachmaninov Symphony No.2

I'll come clean: the last thing I expected from this source was a front-running Rachmaninov Second. I was wrong. If...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 9/1991

Beethoven & Mozart Chamber Orchestral Works

We are used to hearing the Grosse Fuge transcribed for string orchestra, and less frequently the C sharp minor Quartet,...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 10/1991

Bruckner Symphony No 1

Abbado recorded this symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic way back in 1970 (Decca, 1/71 – nla). Since, in those days,...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/1997

Ruzicka String Quartets

At just over 50, Peter Ruzicka is a prominent figure in German musical life, as administrator as well as composer....

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/1999

Verdi (Un) ballo in maschera

Like several of its predecessors‚ this set comprises a complete opera and a number of excerpts‚ also from 78rpm originals‚...

Reviewed in issue 5/2002

Pizzetti Canti della Stagione Alta & Tre Canzoni

Composed in the Dolomites during the summer of 1930, Ildebrando Pizzetti’s Canti della stagione alta (“Songs of the High Season”)...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 13/2011

Bach - Sonatas & Partitas: lute versions

Bach’s student Johann Friedrich Reichardt wrote that Bach often played the Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin on the clavichord,...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 7/2000

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