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Gesualdo/Luzzasci/Monte/Montella/Nenna - O Dolorosa Gioia

The first impression from this CD is that Rinaldo Alessandrini’s Gesualdo lacks the burnished warmth of his Monteverdi. The acoustic...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: /2000

Sanz Guitar Works

The guitar, through its association with dance and other forms of lewdness, considered an instrument of the Devil? Sound familiar?...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 2/2006

Bizet Carmen

Lorin Maazel conducted two studio recordings of Carmen, both with stellar casts; one in 1970 with Anna Moffo and Franco...

Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 7/2008

Ireland Piano Concerto, etc

A mid-price reissue to warm the cockles of Ireland aficionados everywhere, with Barbirolli's deliciously affectionate 1965 account of the London...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 2/1994

Vergine Bella

The frottola repertory has hardly received the sort of discographical coverage that its importance warrants. It has tended to be...

Reviewed in issue 8/2002

Portrait of Graham Waterhouse

A most stimulating collection and, for me, another satisfying new composer with a distinctive soundworld. Graham Waterhouse (the son of...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/2004

Rorem On an Echoing Road

A first thought here is that the poems would make an excellent anthology in themselves – and that is not...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/2010

Strauss, R Capriccio

This performance, deriving from a 1993 staging at the San Francisco Opera, is blessedly free from modern gimmicks. It is...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 13/2003

Schubert Complete Lieder, Vol.16

Schubert's Schiller settings, to which this disc is devoted, are not among the most immediately approachable of the composer's Lieder....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1993

Mozart Concertos

This disc makes an appropriate pendant to the recent collection of Beecham's pre-war and wartime Mozart symphony recordings (EMI References...

Reviewed in issue 10/1991

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