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Fiorillo & Viotti Violin Concertos

Ignore the dewy blushing rose and the appelation ''romantic Violin Concertos'' adorning this record sleeve, and you are well away....

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 3/1987

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson - Recital at Ravinia

She truly was one of the great singers of our time – it is not just the seal and solemnity...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/2009

Roslavets Chamber Symphony No 2; In the Hours of the New Moon

Nikolay Roslavets (1881-1944) may have been a pupil of Ippolitov-Ivanov but it was Schoenberg’s influence which proved crucial to his...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2006

Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream

This version of A Midsummer Night's Dream has the advantage of being absolutely complete. It's true that one or two...

Reviewed in issue 7/1994

(The) Story of King's College Choir

Excellent. A film which has confidence in the value of its subject and the taste of its viewers. There are...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 1/2005

Rachmaninov Symphony No 2; Russian Songs, Op 41

Polyansky’s broad approach in the Second Symphony might suggest a kinship with Previn, rather than the taut and tense Pletnev,...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/1998

Mozart String Quartets, K421 & K575

From their intense, contained sotto voce opening, broadly paced and eloquently phrased, the Hagen stress the melancholy fatalism of K421’s...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 2/1997

Verdi Otello

This DG/Unitel film was the follow-up to the Otello conducted and directed at the Salzburg Festival in 1971, and revived...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/2005

Handel Alessandro Severo; Manzaro Don Crepuscolo

Here is a conundrum: we have the world- premiere recording of an opera, almost every number of which has been...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 6/2011

Elgar Orchestral Works

Not long ago I began a review of a recording of the Enigma Variations by asking if there was any...

Reviewed in issue 1/1991

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