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Full Frequency Range Ravel

Impressive as Decca’s ffrr recording was for its period, and vivid as the present transfers are, there is a note...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1996

Schuster Quartetti Padovani

Joseph Schuster (1748­1812)‚ born in Dresden‚ was best known in his day for his church music and operas. These six...

Reviewed in issue 7/2002

Dvorak Piano Trios

In some key respects this is a satisfying programme though first impressions were unfavourably deceptive with a rather foursquare delivery...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 3/2010

Puccini La Fanciulla del West

This is a perfectly good company-performance spoilt (I speak for myself) by the casting of the title-role. There may be,...

Reviewed in issue 11/1992

Elgar/Walton Violin Sonatas

This is a most beautiful record. The two sonatas form an admirable coupling: associated by nationality of composer and century...

Reviewed in issue 11/1985

Handel Trio Sonatas Op 5

The Op 5 Trio Sonatas were published by John Walsh in 1739. Earlier publications of Handel’s chamber music were cobbled...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 3/2006

Ponchielli Orchestral Works

Except for the success of La Gioconda Ponchielli's rather short career was a sequence of rebuffs, disappointments and rotten luck,...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 1/1994

Beethoven Mass, Op 86; Mozart Vesperae de Dominica, K321

Beethoven’s Mass in C got off to a bad start. Nikolaus Esterházy II who commissioned the music hated it; and...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 4/2007

Bruckner Sym No 8; Wagner Tristan & Isolde Prelude; Wesendonck Lieder

To hear two distinguished Wagnerians‚ Knappertsbusch and Goodall‚ trying conclusions with Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony makes for an interesting comparison‚ but...

Reviewed in issue 5/2002

Schubert - Lieder

Fischer-Dieskau, Britten, Schubert - what an amazing coming-together of creative talent! Predictably it produces a truly unique occasion (nowhere else...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1999

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