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Offenbach Orphée aux Enfers

Before their acclaimed La belle Hélène (3/02), runner-up for Gramophone’s DVD Award last year, Laurent Pelly and Marc Minkowski staged...

Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 1/2004

Paisiello Fedra

Paisiello's two-act opera, Fedra was first performed at Naples in 1788 when the composer was at the height of his...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1989

Vaughan Williams Complete Symphonies etc

No one was a doughtier champion of Vaughan Williams than Boult, and if EMI’s elegant, slimline repackaging of Sir Adrian’s...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 1/2001

Making of a Performance - Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4

This programme has two parts: a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony and a documentary that, in Michael Tilson Thomas’s words,...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2005

Mendelssohn/Schumann Violin Concertos

Kreisler recorded the Beethoven, Brahms and Mendelssohn concertos twice electrically, and in the case of the first two works the...

Reviewed in issue 12/1991

Mozart Sinfonia Concertante & Concertone

Koch’s booklet-note tells us that, by performing all the solo parts of the works involved, “Isabelle van Keulen fulfils a...

Reviewed in issue 11/1997

Mussorgsky Boris Godunov

The one big advantage of the original 1869 Boris – which is more or less what we have here –...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2006

Bruckner Symphony No 3

Skrowaczewski’s Bruckner readings are generally robust and full-bodied, taut and lyrical by turns. It is no surprise, therefore, to find...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/1999

Walton Façade. Poems by Edith Sitwell

If I were allowed just one work of Walton's to save from the proverbial flood, it would undoubtedly be Facade,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1990

Rachmaninov Monna Vanna, Act 1; Piano Concerto No. 4

Here is an enterprising issue and no mistake—an essential library acquisition, irrespective of the quality of the music or the...

Reviewed in issue 3/1992

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