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Falla Vocal & Instrumental Works

In January I was discussing an enterprising record from Virgin Classics offering together the original versions of El amor brujo...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/1990

Modern Piano Works

The last item on this disc provides its principal justification. Stefan Wolpe's music is rarely recorded, and the ''Passacaglia'' is...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/1987

Sandy Wilson Divorce me, Darling

What a pleasure to be able to welcome this CD of last summer’s revival of Divorce Me, Darling! without reservations...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Dittersdorf Sinfonias, Vol. 3

The prolific but largely neglected Dittersdorf has long been deserving of greater attention as these scintillating performances of bright and...

Reviewed by mquinn in issue: 12/1998

Strauss, R (Die) Frau ohne Schatten

Sir Georg Solti’s Gramophone Award-winning CD recording of this opera (Decca, 5/92), recorded at intervals over a two-and-a-half-year span, is...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/2002

Handel Giulio Cesare

It is usually the big nineteenth-century opera sets that are bought for their singers; but with a line-up of principals...

Reviewed in issue 3/1995

Handel Complete Cantatas Vol 1

Contrasto Armonico is embarking on an ambitious project to record all of Handel’s cantatas. Whereas La Risonanza’s magnificent seven-volume series...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 2/2010

Kienzl Lieder, Vol 1

A prolific composer for the voice, Wilhelm Kienzl (1857-1941) scored an international success with his 1895 opera Der Evangelimann, but...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 7/2011

Eötvös Vocal Works

The emergence of Peter Eötvös (b1944) as among the most impressive composers of the middle generation can now be heard...

Reviewed in issue 10/2002

Grieg & Chopin Cello Sonatas

Chopin's complete works for cello and piano, as from Lodeon and Duchable, certainly add up to an eminently desirable Erato...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1987

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