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The Incomparable Callas

For me the 'incomparable Callas' is the one be heard in her absolute prime on the I puritani set (see...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1987

Verdi Messa da Requiem

Regular concertgoers have long memories, so it is not surprising that someone has recalled a special performance of Verdi’s Requiem...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 13/2010

Brahms Cello Sonatas

Brahms's cello and piano sonatas are so well cared for on disc by so many international celebrities (not forgetting Rostropovich...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 10/1993

Franck/Vieuxtemps Works for Viola

Nobuko Imai gives a powerfully argued account of the Cesar Franck sonata in the company of the pianist Roger Vignoles....

Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 9/1992

Webern Works for String Quartet and String Trio

Now that the Emerson Quartet’s excellent DG disc (5/95) has been absorbed into a six-CD ‘complete’ Webern (6/00), an alternative...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Beethoven Missa Solemnis

We know that the Missa solemnis has moments of the utmost and loveliest serenity, others when a spirit of confidence...

Reviewed in issue 3/1991

Dreamscapes

Neglect is no respecter of style or quality: conservative or radical, good or bad, composers may find themselves disregarded for...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/1990

Maria - Cecilia Bartoli

Bartoli is back. “Did she ever go away?” you ask. Well, no, but in that central spotlight which focuses upon...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/2007

Wolpe Operettas

Like Weill, Eisler and others, Stefan Wolpe (1902-72) gravitated from 1920s Berlin to America, and to musical concerns different in...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/2000

(The) Wimpfen Fragments - 13th Century Motets

These are French – possibly Parisian – motets, salvaged from a bookbinder’s strips of parchment containing musical notation. Presenting them...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 7/1999

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