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Ravel: Orchestral Works

A compilation of Ravel reissues from DG's current premium conductor, which, no doubt, explains that Company's premium price. The sophistication...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/1991

Liszt Sacred Choral Music

With 27 voices the Lugano Radio Choir are intimate enough to capture the innocent simplicity of the Pater noster and...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 9/1997

Vaughan Williams Symphony No 2; Tallis Fantasia

Michael Kennedy who, as usual, provides the excellent notes for HMV's record of Vaughan William's music when conducted by Sir...

Reviewed in issue 3/1985

Beethoven Lieder

Fischer-Dieskau has of course recorded many Beethoven songs before, and these three records reflect his latest thoughts. They are very...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/1985

Cimarosa Keyboards Sonatas

Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801) was a prolific composer whose output included 60 operas and 88 keyboard sonatas. And his racy life...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/2006

Britten Albert Herring

As in all his recordings, Britten is a hard act to follow. Yet when his version of Albert Herring appeared...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1997

Villa-Lobos Choros, Vol 3

John Neschling has no equal in this repertoire and it’s fortunate for us that he completed his cycle of Villa-Lobos’s...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 6/2009

Tommi Hakala - Great Baritone Arias

So often after a Cardiff Singer of the World competition on television, people go around feigning wide-eyed disbelief: ‘Did you...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/2005

Dusolina Giannini (1902-1986)

Born in Philadelphia of Italian parents, Giannini's voice was peculiarly Italian in timbre, almost to a fault. Its fiery, steely...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1993

R. Strauss Lieder

The great recordings are a hardy species. They stand transplanting, pruning and pollarding: hear them complete or in extract, they...

Reviewed in issue 12/1985

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