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Bizet Carmen

This 1987 revival of what was originally an expanded version of Peter Hall’s Glyndebourne staging, with traditional and evocative sets...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/2001

Verdi Heroines, Vol. 1

With this (there is another volume to follow) and her recent Puccini recital (Orfeo, 5/95), it seems to me that...

Reviewed in issue 1/1996

Shostakovich Piano Works

While Vladimir Ashkenazy has enjoyed a high-profile conducting career in recent years, it is as a pianist that he is...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 6/2004

Schumann Piano Quintet & Quartet

How strange that, after emerging within a few months of each other in 1976, these two performances should now reappear...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 2/1988

Geminiani Pièces de Clavecin

While Geminiani’s fame as a violinist and composer remains undimmed‚ his fame as a guitarist is almost forgotten‚ and his...

Reviewed in issue 10/2002

Dowland (A) Dream

On the frontispiece of many an early edition of Dowland’s works you can find Musica seated on a cloud, lute...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 9/2005

Mozart Edition, Vol.38

Two of these three sets—the Entfuhrung and Zauberflote—appear as recommendations in The Good CD Guide: at mid-price they become even...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1992

Beethoven String Quartets, Op. 59 No 3 & Op. 74

After listening to these fastidiously voiced performances‚ I wasn’t in the least surprised to read that the 10­year­old Turner Quartet...

Reviewed in issue 10/2001

Sacchini Oedipe à Colone

The life of Antonio Sacchini (1730-86) makes sad reading. The composer of nearly 50 operas, eight of them settings of...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 7/2006

English String Music

Excellent value, with one or two major provisos. Holst's St Paul's Suite is fresh, vital and expertly conceived (the contrasts...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/1994

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