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Mozart Don Giovanni

Is it worth considering a recording made all of 38 years ago by Austrian Radio (though not issued then), in...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1994

Masterpieces of the Renaissance, Volume III-Paris

Eustache Du Caurroy is one of the unsung heroes of the French renaissance. He served as master of the French...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/1997

Herbert Ernst Groh Opera Recital

Groh is a singer unjustly neglected. Possessing a tenor that lies somewhere between Tauber’s and Patzak’s in weight, Groh evinced...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1992

Respighi Orchestral Works

The conventional coupling of Pines, Fountains and Festivals makes sense, of course. They are seen as the 'essential' Respighi, and...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1994

Arnold Orchestral Dances

This new Naxos set of the Arnold Dances from the Queensland orchestra under Andrew Penny is well worth its modest...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1996

Haydn: Keyboard works

This is Brendel's third Haydn record in recent years (the other two, also on Philips, are 9500 774, 8/81 and...

Reviewed in issue 8/1985

Britten Orchestral Works

From Ondine comes a perceptive, at times daring, always thought-provoking new account of Britten's Piano Concerto. Indeed, pungent characterization is...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 1/1995

Mackenzie/Tovey Piano Concertos

From the horns’ call-to-arms at the outset to the irrepressible merrymaking of the closing pages, Edinburgh-born Sir Alexander Mackenzie’s Scottish...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/1998

Berkeley, M Baa Baa Black Sheep, A Jungle Tale

David Malouf’s libretto shifts ingeniously between Kipling’s autobiographical story Baa Baa Black Sheep and aspects of The Jungle Book. The...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 6/2004

Szymanowski Piano Sonatas

‘Goodness me,’ you may well be asking, ‘Did Szymanowski really write three piano sonatas?’ A pardonable question, since very few...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1999

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