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Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra - Concerti Virtuosi

Here’s another miscellany to confound the searcher in the record shop. It begins and ends with Vivaldi, prince of concerto...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 7/2006

Jones (The) Geisha

Pierre Loti has a lot to answer for. His 1893 novel Madame Chrysantheme, adapted for the musical stage the same...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 2/1999

Czech Orchestral Works

After a gap of four years since his fine readings of the last three symphonies, Dohnanyi here makes a welcome...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1991

Hindemith (Das) Unaufhörliche

The oratorio Das Unaufhorliche (“The One Perpetual”), setting a poem by Gottfried Benn, was Hindemith’s longest concert work. It was...

Reviewed in issue 10/1997

Yundi Li - The Young Romantic

Classical artists usually earn a single name on billboards by their eminence (Heifetz, Horowitz, Solomon, Liberace). Yundi Li, now rebranded...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 6/2010

Britten (The) Turn of the Screw

I saw this production when it was new at the Munich Festival of 1983‚ and was enthralled by Michael Hampe’s...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/2001

Beethoven Piano Sonatas

Like the great German Schubertian, Eduard Erdmann, Yves Nat was not greatly known outside his own country in the post-war...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/1989

Wagner Orchestral Music from Operas

Despite some impressively ample engineering from the Telarc team of Robert Woods and Jack Renner, this mid-price reissue contains little...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 2/1994

Schubert - Rosamunde. Dvorák Czech Suite

A relatively new Czech ensemble proudly embodying ‘Old World’ Czech playing styles and sounds. So, a disc for those who...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 13/1998

Tippett (A) Child of Our Time

The centenary of Sir Michael Tippett’s birth has seen a fair amount of critical agonising about whether he is, any...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 5/2005

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