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The Puccini Experience

“Is there perhaps more to it than ‘Nessun dorma’?” John Kehoe’s insert-notes tell us that “The Puccini Experience” offers an...

Reviewed in issue 1/1996

Prometheus

An ingenious and instructive programme. Prometheus's theft of fire from Zeus and the cruelty of his punishment are all but...

Reviewed in issue 1/1995

Tchaiovsky 1812 overture

Theodore Kuchar and the Ukraine Orchestra have already given us a highly recommendable Mussorgsky collection on Naxos and the present...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 13/2003

Herrmann (The) Trouble with Harry

The Trouble with Harry (1955) marked the beginning of Bernard Herrmann’s now legendary 12-year association with director Alfred Hitchcock. Exquisitely...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/1998

Mozart Le nozze di Figaro

This is not the same performance as the CD version (8/94), which derived from a semi-staging in London. Here we...

Reviewed in issue 3/1995

The Blue Guitar

Eleftheria Kotzia is a young Greek lady who has settled in London, bringing with her the kind of freshness—musical and...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 6/1989

Great Pianists - Moiseiwitsch Vol 13

Benno Moiseiwitsch always ranked among the world’s most delectable pianists. And here on a lucky Volume 13 of Chopin discs...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/2010

Salieri Overtures

It is unlikely that anyone who feels that Salieri was a third-rate also-ran eclipsed in the shadow of Mozart will...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 8/2008

Haydn L'infedelta delusa

This reissue of the splendid late-1970s initiative by Dorati, the European Broadcasting Union and Philips—a pioneering achievement of magnitude—is most...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 6/1993

Butler American Rounds

Martin Butler’s contribution to the chamber domain has been a significant one. All of these pieces were written over the...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 8/2007

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