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Puccini Madama Butterfly

Butterfly was not an obvious role for Tebaldi: girlish charm and vulnerable innocence were not her strong suits; she sometimes...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1997

Sauer Suite moderne; (3) Concert Studies; Galop de Concert

Volume 6 of Emil von Sauer’s solo piano music continues a unique undertaking and one that includes a first recording...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 13/2003

A. Scarlatti Cantatas

The three works by Alessandro Scarlatti performed here all date from the last two decades of the seventeenth century. Diana...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1990

All' Improvviso

L’Arpeggiata’s previous recordings have blended popular or folk-inspired elements with music of the Baroque in striking and imaginative ways. ‘All’Improviso’...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 12/2004

Raff Symphonies

In the two most popular of Respighi's Roman suites, Pines and Fountains, Sinopoli seems at first to have a pretty...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1993

Rheinberger Complete Organ Works, Vol 1

In the first half of this century Rheinberger’s music was very fashionable amongst British organists, but sadly it finds little...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 11/1999

Boëllman Chamber Works

Boellmann is best remembered as an organist, and especially for the Suite gothique (two movements of which appear in effective...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/1998

Jean Cras Orchestral Works

It’s easy enough for good composers to fall between the cracks of history, but one who says bluntly ‘Composing full-time...

Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 7/2005

Meeting Point Saxophone Concertos

McChrystal has an enviably full and warm soprano saxophone tone, and his intonation is as secure as his gift for...

Reviewed by kshadwick in issue: 6/1996

Brahms & Rachmaninov orchestrated Schoenberg & Respighi

Oh dear! Only last February I was suggesting that Jarvi on Chandos may have stretched the Brahms Quartet (in Schoenberg's...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/1991

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