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Zimmerman, W Schatten der Ideen

‘Speaks true who speaks shadow’: so says the great post-Holocaust poet Paul Celan, and from his titles alone the German...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/2003

Bach Cantatas Nos 12, 38 and 75

Philippe Herreweghe’s Bach journey is unusual in not forming part of a complete edition. Rather, Collegium Vocale select – usually...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 4/2005

Hyadn Symphonies 91 & 92

Robin Golding reviewed the LP issue of these symphonies and wrote about them with the greatest enthusiasm, a view with...

Reviewed in issue 4/1985

Shostakovich The Gadfly. Five Days - Five Nights

At first glance this seems like a missed opportunity. Theodore Kuchar and his orchestra have been making first-class recordings of...

Reviewed in issue 5/1997

Bach: Organ Concertos, etc

Bach's well known frugal practice of recycling existing works has given credence to the recovery of a number of 'lost'...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 12/1990

Söderman Catholic Mass

Catholic ritual fascinated August Soderman (1832-76). Both works here possess a devotional atmosphere, the setting of Heine’s Pilgrimage to Kevlaar...

Reviewed in issue 11/1999

Verdi Don Carlo

For those of us who were there then and are still around, this (or another in the series) was the...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/2006

Jommelli Armida abbandonata

''Beautiful but too serious and old-fashioned for the theatre'', wrote the 14-year-old Mozart to his sister after attending the first...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1995

Schubert Die schöne Müllerin

Araiza is familiar to us as a fine Mozart and Donizetti tenor. In this country, he has yet to appear...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1985

Gottschalk Piano Works

Klaus Kaufmann enjoys himself a great deal in these mostly exuberant pieces, and the pleasure he takes in them is...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/1990

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