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Beethoven String Quartets 10 & 12

When these performances first appeared, one of our most perceptive writers on Beethoven hailed them as ''the deepest, most sensitive...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 6/1987

Verdi (Les) Vêpres Siciliennes

We are again in debt to Opera Rara and Sir Peter Moores for extending their invaluable series of first versions...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/2005

Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande

This staging, first presented at the Lyon Opera in the mid-1980s, was brought by the company to the Edinburgh Festival,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/2001

Lyatoshinsky Symphonies

Things certainly move fast in the record industry. Only a couple of months ago Boris Lyatoshynsky (1895–1968, let me remind...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1995

Kodály Cello Sonata, Op 8; Duo, Op 7

From the collector's viewpoint this is a natural coupling, although Nils-Erick Sparf and Elemer Lavotha's BIS/Conifer LP offers Kodaly's Sonata...

Reviewed in issue 10/1984

Bernstein West Side Story

If the job of a 'crossover' record is to shatter preconceptions on both sides of any musical fence, then this...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1985

Rossini Ciro in Babilonia

Belshazzar's famous feast, and some potted history derived from Herodotus about the fall of Belshazzar [Baldassare] and the rise of...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/1991

Tavener Fall and Resurrection

Although Tavener's Fall and Resurrection adds little that is new to his distinctive musical style, it is nevertheless an extraordinary...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 5/2000

Butterworth Symphony No 1; Gipps Symphony No 2

An enterprising issue featuring two major works by neglected British composers. Arthur Butterworth’s First Symphony is a bold, rugged essay...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 8/1999

Haydn: Keyboard works

Compact Disc realistically captures Brendel's brittle tone and emphasizes some of the quirks of his pianism at the expense of...

Reviewed in issue 8/1985

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