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Rossini (The) Barber of Seville

Joyce DiDonato fell and supposedly sprained her ankle during Act 1 of the first night of Covent Garden’s July 2009...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 6/2010

Bolcom Violin Sonatas

William Bolcom has been doing well on CD, thanks largely to Naxos – and he deserves to, as his massive...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 8/2006

Telemann Violin Fantasies

As Rachel Podger hints in her booklet note‚ Telemann’s solo violin music is not as technically demanding or as densely...

Reviewed in issue 10/2002

Brahms/Mozart Clarinet Quintets

The coupling of these two supreme masterpieces among clarinet quintets is surprisingly rare, coming as a rule in repackages of...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1999

Haydn: Symphonies

Founded in 1956, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra was admired by Shostakovich, who wrote that the orchestra ''never failed to amaze...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 4/1990

Puccini Madama Butterfly

Leontyne Price was in glorious voice, when in July 1962 she made this recording of Butterfly, the first big project...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1988

Mozart: Piano Concertos (arr. Pf/Str Qt)

The hard and fast division we hold to these days between chamber music and orchestral music was much less marked...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/1990

Michelangeli in London - June 30th 1959

Handel wrote six sonatas for recorder and continuo; five of them were published in his Op. 1 collection (though one...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 10/1999

Smetana Má Vlast

‘My father was practically Czech,’ says Nikolaus Harnoncourt after enquiring whether there are any Czech musicians in the orchestra. There...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 1/2012

Talich conducts Mozart

Vaclav Talich and the Czech Philharmonic recorded Dvorak's Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Symphonies for HMV before the war and the...

Reviewed in issue 1/1992

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