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Renée Fleming - Homage: (The) Age of the Diva

This is not a disc to be listened to all at once. Subtitled “The Age of the Diva”, it is...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 11/2006

Stravinsky Orchestral Works

Boulez’s Stravinsky recordings from the 1990s have had a mixed press. Michael Oliver found his Cleveland Petrushka and Rite of...

Reviewed in issue 12/2001

Schumann Kreisleriana; Gesänge der Frühe

With Pollini on top form in a recital of this range to savour, my feeling is there’s no one to...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 9/2002

Liszt: Works for Piano & Orchestra

Muscular, plain-speaking and full of determination, the opening piano flourishes in the E flat Concerto announce Barry Douglas's intentions. He...

Reviewed in issue 8/1990

Handel: Orchestral works

The Cappella Coloniensis is not an orchestra which I have heard more than a handful of times in the past...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1985

Berio Chamber Works

Luciano Berio is one of the leading figures from the great, innovative generation of composers born in the 1920s –...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/2003

Bach St Mark Passion

Not a note of Bach’s St Mark Passion exists, but we know it existed once and that it was a...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2000

Messiaen Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps

Adding yet more versions to the well stocked discography of the Quartet for the End of Time is surely not...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/2008

Fauré Complete Chamber music for Strings and Piano

This is a smartly packaged box and an enterprising release, bringing together the complete works of Fauré for strings and...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2011

Smetana Má Vlast; Orchestral excerpts from The Bartered Bride

Sawallisch's excellent performance of the cycle with the Suisse Romande on RCA comes on a single CD, and I can...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1989

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