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Handel Semele

Handel’s Semele is such a delightful piece that it is strange how poorly it has been covered on disc. With...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 13/2004

Maxwell Davies The Martyrdom of St Magnus

This hauntingly beautiful chamber opera is one of the finest of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies's Orkney-inspired pieces (it opened the...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1991

Mahler Symphony No 10

Completing unfinished masterworks by great composers can make sound commercial sense but Deryck Cooke’s performing version of Mahler’s Tenth is...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 3/2008

Delibes Lakmé

This recording of Delibes's Indian opera—just one example of French authors' and musicians' fascination, in the late nineteenth century, with...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1989

Richard Strauss: Orchestral Works

Until the at-present-unavailable EMI Karajan-Rostropovich Don Quixote is issued on CD, this Kempe performance has no modern rival as an...

Reviewed in issue 8/1988

Shura Cherkassky Vol 8

Volumes 7 and 8 in Decca’s “Shura Cherkassky Live” series continue an ear-tickling legend and spell. No other pianist has...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/1996

Boulanger - Choral Works

The name of the remarkable teacher and conductor Nadia Boulanger is famous throughout the musical world, but her sister Lili...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 7/1999

Weckmann Sacred Concerti

Matthias Weckmann cuts a distinguished, if not prolific figure, in the generation between Schutz and Bach. His style is typical...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 1/2000

Pergolesi/A. Scarlatti Stabat Mater

Many readers will already be in possession of at least one recording of Pergolesi’s Stabat mater and, in a highly...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1999

Strauss, R - Seduction

Here’s a solo recital to warm the hearts of all lovers of attractive‚ well­contoured singing and engaging interpretation. Steve Davislim‚...

Reviewed in issue 12/2001

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