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Siegfried Wagner conducts Richard Wagner

It must be rare if not unique for a musician to conduct a work composed to celebrate his birth and...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1989

Milhaud String Quartets Vol. 2

I sometimes get the impression that record companies, with their elaborate new numbering systems and non-parallel reissues, are taking a...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1987

Stravinsky Pulcinella Suite; Danses concertantes

A most attractive coupling of Stravinsky at his most genial. Not that Stravinsky himself in his own recordings allowed much...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1983

Verdi Requiem

In discussing the Verdi Requiem in Opera on Record 3 (Hutchinson: 1984), I expressed the wish that Karajan would record...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1985

Fauré; Franck String Quartets

Two swansongs, and in each case it’s the composer’s only string quartet. But how different these works are – the...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 10/2008

Great European Organs, No.42

Tucked away inside the booklet accompanying this disc is an acknowledgement to two vitally important people: “During the recordings the...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 5/1997

Mahler Symphony No 1

Pierre Boulez’s Mahler will always be controversial, but here he turns in a fresh and finely detailed account of No....

Reviewed in issue 6/1999

Brahms Double Concerto/Mendelssohn Violin Concerto

There is some magnificent playing in the Double Concerto from Perlman and Rostropovich, as one would expect, but the recording...

Reviewed in issue 5/1989

Handel Partenope

Partenope was not a highly regarded work in its day, though it subsequently enjoyed the distinction of being among the...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 9/2005

Verdi Otello

The Busch set has to rank among the most satisfying performances of this work ever available on disc, up there...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1999

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