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R Strauss Orchestral Works, Volume 2

These are good performances and‚ at their price‚ very welcome. Even points that at first sight seem to be blemishes...

Reviewed in issue 11/2001

Klemperer in Los Angeles

In the normal course of things, a set of recordings as technically wretched as these would be more or less...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/1997

Shostakovich (arr Basner) Katerina Ismailowa

According to the notes accompanying this recording, Shostakovich thought of compiling a symphony based on themes from the opera then...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1998

Glazunov: Complete Songs

Most Russian composers of the decades before the First World War produced songs almost as a matter of course; most...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1985

Elîna Garanca - Bel Canto

Back in the early 1970s, asked to define bel canto, Beverly Sills replied: “Line – a long, flowing line… and...

Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 6/2009

Haydn Piano Trios

Members of the Mosaiques together with Patrick Cohen reawakened us to the delight of yet another evolving genre in which...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 12/1997

Szymanowski Piano Works, Vol. 2

Szymanowski’s keyboard music covers a wide range of pianistic style, and Martin Roscoe’s responsiveness to that range is finely demonstrated...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/1997

Gade Piano Works, Vol. 2

The Danish label Kontrapunkt are to be commended for their sustained enterprise in recording the music of Niels Gade. In...

Reviewed in issue 5/1993

Weber Der Freischutz

This Cologne broadcast of Weber’s masterpiece took place a year after Furtwangler’s Salzburg performances, which I reviewed recently (EMI, A/00)....

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Tallis Spem in alium. Lamentations. Mass. Motets

This is quite the best performance of Tallis’s 40-part Spem in alium that I have heard. Sung by a constellation...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 10/2000

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