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Weber Der Freischütz

It seems strange that this, the seventh complete recording of Der Freischutz, has never before appeared in England. It is...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1996

Mayuko Kamio - In Recital

Mayuko Kamio, born in Osaka, Japan, but who studied also in the USA, won the 1998 Menuhin International Competition. She...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/2009

Babbitt Transfigured Notes; Schoenberg Transfigured Night

It is not often, on hearing a completely unfamiliar piece, that I find myself compelled to listen to it three...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 11/2002

Musique pour le Chambre du Roy

I was enthusiastic about this Versailles anthology when it was first released ten years ago. The programme consists of two...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1994

Silenced Voices - Victims of the Holocaust

Following their much-acclaimed coupling of chamber music by Gideon Klein and Viktor Ullmann for Channel Classics (12/91), the Hawthorne Quartet...

Reviewed in issue 5/1993

Vienna State Opera Live, Vol.16

Here is another, paradoxically, wonderful and infuriating issue in this astonishing series. Devoted to the art of Ursuleac, Runger, Volker...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1995

Delius Orchestral & Vocal Works

This, frankly, strikes me as a much better selection of Beecham's pre-war Delius than the Beecham Trust's previous issue, which...

Reviewed in issue 11/1990

Bolcom A View from the Bridge

The first draft of Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge was in blank­verse. The Broadway ‘talkiness’ came later. But...

Reviewed in issue 10/2001

Mozart Symphonies

Writing about Bohm's LP performance of No. 39, RG criticized the finale for its lack of geniality. When I heard...

Reviewed in issue 5/1985

Silver - The Best of The Tallis Scholars

These recordings mark 25 years from the first concert that Peter Phillips directed, including three singers who are still associated...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 13/1998

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