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Mozart Così fan tutte

In recent years the action of the opera Thomas Beecham once described as a “long summer day spent in a...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2010

Domingo and Perlman Together

How odd, you might think, to have a highlights disc of Verdi's Nabucco dedicated to the tenor who sings the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1992

La Rue; Josquin Choral Works

Among Josquin's 18 known Masses, the Hercules dux Ferrarie is perhaps the most clearly structured and the most joyful. The...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 3/1987

Rossini Tancredi

Given the historical importance of Tancredi, it is remarkable it has never been prepared for studio recording. If we can...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/1994

Grange Darkness Visible

Although his music has been widely heard in recent decades, Philip Grange has only a fine collection on Black Box...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 7/2006

Elgar (The) Wand of Youth; Nursery Suite

Back in September 1990, James Judd recorded an idiomatic account of Elgar’s First Symphony with the Hallé Orchestra for Pickwick/IMP...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 5/2004

Beethoven Creatures of Prometheus. Symphony No 3

“Gods, Heroes and Men” is the title of this disc. Thematically it is concerned with the legend of Prometheus; musically...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/2011

Verdi (La) Traviata

This version, admired by cognoscenti, has too long been lost in limbo, victim in the late 1950s of the break-up...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/2005

Shostakovich in performance

Even after the triumph of his First Symphony in 1925, Shostakovich was 'hot' enough as a pianist to wonder which...

Reviewed in issue 2/1995

Mendelssohn, F (Das) Jahr

It seems outrageous at this remove that Felix, Fanny’s younger brother, not only actively discouraged the publication of his sister’s...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 7/2007

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