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Janácek (The) Cunning Little Vixen

This has been available in the USA for years‚ so it’s good to have it available in the UK at...

Reviewed in issue 7/2002

Grigory Sokolov - Live in Paris

One of the great pianists of our time, Grigory Sokolov remains a shadowy figure. His decision to release only records...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/2004

Baroque Anthology

An anthology such as this—and there are many of them, a potpourri of 'The Baroque's Greatest Hits'—patently addresses its sermon...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 10/1990

Mussorgsky & Stravinsky: Orchestral Works

Yet another new recording of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, and an enjoyable one, richly and spectacularly recorded in the...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1990

Schütz Resurrection History

It is curious how, from a composer's entire output, one piece takes on an unwonted prominence through widely repeated performance,...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 4/1991

The Vintage Collection - Operetta, Vol. 1

This agreeable issue, though prepared in a somewhat muddled manner, gives a fair conspectus of a classic age in singing...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1989

Stokowski conducts Philadelphia Rarities

Here is a very well-produced issue, with illuminating notes by the Stokowski authority Edward Johnson, good transfers, and basically good...

Reviewed in issue 10/1993

Beethoven Fidelio

It was Abbado’s second Berlin Philharmonic symphony cycle from 2001 which thrust him more or less unexpectedly into the ranks...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/2011

Schumann Hommage à Bach

In his long and scholarly accompanying essay, Andreas Staier pays tribute to Schumann’s debt and devotion to Bach. For Schumann,...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2009

Bach Keyboard Partitas Nos 1, 3 & 6

Bach’s Partitas were offered by their composer ‘to music lovers in order to refresh their spirits’ and were later celebrated...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/2003

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