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Jacques (The) Gorey End

The Tiger Lillies, in conjunction with theatre directors Julian Crouch and Phelim McDermott, created the ‘junk opera’ Shockheaded Peter. Based...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 8/2003

Spohr Songs

Spohr ranged wide in his choice of poet and of subject; the music, unfortunately, is more limited in expressive range....

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/1997

Wagner Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

This set exhibits the advantages and disadvantages of live recording at Bayreuth. The excellently achieved balance between stage and orchestra,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1991

Puccini Madama Butterfly

Victoria de los Angeles's second EMI recording of Madama Butterfly (reissued on LP by Classics for Pleasure in 1985) sent...

Reviewed in issue 10/1988

Haydn Seven Last Words

In a brief booklet-note, Vladimir Jurowski denounces the admittedly flaccid text of Haydn’s Seven Last Words as “an obstacle for...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 4/2011

Schnittke Concerto for Choir

Schnittke's Choir Concerto—this ''book of mournful songs'', as the text describes itself—makes great demands on its performers. Listeners also have...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/1995

Rachmaninov Piano Works

Though the Chopin Variations may be less distinctly 'Rachmaninov' than the more familiar Corelli set of roughly 30 years later,...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 8/1988

Handel Aci, Galatea e Polifemo

Ovid’s tale of the sea-nymph Galatea, her lover Acis (a humble Sicilian shepherd) and his jealous murderer, the Cyclops Polyphemus...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 1/2011

Biber Chamber Works

Biber’s violin sonatas are becoming ever more popular, and quite right too. The two big sets – the eight published...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 2/2003

Handel Opera Arias & Duets

It was a happy idea to assemble, on this CD, a selection of Handel’s arias written for the two sopranos...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 11/1997

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