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Donizetti Maria Stuarda (DVD)

Czech director Petr Weigl has made some excellent operatic films. Michael Oliver, in The Classical Video Guide, called A Village...

Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 11/2000

Great Stars of Opera

The introductory chocolate­box waltz does not bode well‚ nor does the sight of the Abbé di Stefano in gaiters or...

Reviewed in issue 9/2001

Brahms Chamber Works

When he reviewed Richard Stoltmman's RCA coupling of the two clarinet sonatas last September JM-C came down firmly in favour...

Reviewed in issue 4/1990

Haydn London Symphonies, Volume 1

This first instalment in a projected complete survey of the ''London'' Symphonies reveals Slatkin as an urbane and affectionate Haydn...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 2/1995

Schumann Dichterliebe, Op 48; Liederkreis, Op 39

Following his much-admired account on the same label of Die schöne Müllerin (12/00), Werner Güra turns his attention to Schumann’s...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/2003

Schubert (Die) Schöne Müllerin

Renowned in roles ranging from Monteverdi’s Orfeo, via Mozart, to Golaud in Pelléas, Swiss tenor Eric Tappy left me uninvolved...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2011

Britten; Kodaly; Roxburgh Cello Works

It’s a brave cellist who chooses Kodály’s Solo Sonata for his debut recording. Aside from its high technical demands, it...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 8/2010

Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas

Writing a warm if inevitably parti pris appreciation of Stephen Kovacevich’s nine-CD and 12-year project, producer John Fraser speaks of...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2004

Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Works

The comparisons between these three new issues of the Pathetique are all the more fascinating, for being in fair measure...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1991

Handel (Il) Trionfo e del Disganno

Nothing is known about the occasion, venue and forces for Handel’s first Roman oratorio, Il trionfo del Tempo e del...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 5/2011

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