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Strauss (Der) Rosenkavalier

This version places me in a quandary. So much that the director does as regards the interplay between the characters...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/2005

Janácek Sinfonietta. Taras Bulba

This is a popular coupling at present: apart from the Mackerras version listed above, there are four others in the...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 10/1983

(Un) Camino de Santiago

The idea of a CD reflecting the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela is not in itself original, but this one...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 9/2011

Brahms Piano Works

I have already praised Idil Biret's Brahms playing in these columns, not least when I reviewed her account of the...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 12/1992

Addinsell Film Soundtracks

I don’t pretend to have heard more than a few of the reputed 100-plus recordings of the Warsaw Concerto; but...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 5/2003

Penderecki Symphony No 8; Dies irae; Aus den Psalmen Davids

The contrast between early and recent Penderecki is extreme. This disc centres on Dies irae, one of his strongest works...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/2008

Haydn Symphonies

Sir Georg Solti celebrates his eightieth birthday with some new Haydn recordings, and how better could he manage it? Only...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1992

Rachmaninov Complete Symphonies and Orchestral Works

Now in his 71st year, Vladimir Ashkenazy’s formidable artistic credentials in this glorious repertoire need no further bolstering from me,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 4/2009

Handel Julius Caeser

What a wonderfully varied opera this is, and how splendidly it is enacted by the ENO forces who performed it...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1985

Ravel; Schulhoff Piano Concertos

The whip-crack that begins Ravel’s G major Concerto causes pianist Claire-Marie Le Guay and her conductor Louis Langrée to run...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 1/2006

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