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Mahler Symphony No 6. Rückert Lieder

Mahler's Sixth Symphony has been finely treated on record, not least by Abbado. Occasionally, this searingly classical work has been...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1989

Weber Piano Works

We're told that Phyllis Moss (a new name to me) studied at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia with the renowned...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 1/1990

Credo

Don’t be put off by the cover, showing Hvorostovsky’s eyes overlaid on some ecclesiastical vaulting: this is an impressive anthology...

Reviewed in issue 10/1997

Adam Le corsaire

Adolphe Adam's score for Le corsaire was first heard in Paris during 1856, and was highly praised for its originality...

Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 10/1992

Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila

The late Martin Cooper, an authority on French music in the nineteenth century, once compared Saint-Saens's opera with Stravinsky's Oedipus...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1991

Puccini Heroines

The first seven Puccini heroines are all one and the same person, namely Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, who establishes a...

Reviewed in issue 8/1986

Cloudburst – Eric Whitacre

Eric Whitacre, better known in his native USA, came relatively late to classical music; he was converted by Mozart’s Requiem...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 4/2006

In Concert - Vichy Festival 1955

The archives of radiostations are gradually opening up, and allowing us to hear many performers in a new way. Suzanne...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 6/2003

Calliope - Volume the First

This is a labour of love. Emma Curtis stumbled across Calliope (published in 1739 by John Simpson) while researching the...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2006

Nielsen Symphony No 1; Violin Concerto

Both the symphony and the concerto are amply represented in the catalogue though no other version couples them together. The...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 13/1998

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