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Verdi Otello

These are respectively the first and third of Decca's four recordings of Otello. The earliest was considered rather blatant but...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1994

Mozart Edition, Vol.45

This last box in the Mozart Complete Edition, labelled ''Rarities and Surprises'', contains two CDs that are reissues (so not...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 12/1991

Schubert & Haydn String Quartets

This is the third disc containing these Mahler songs that I have received within a few weeks. But the difference...

Reviewed in issue 5/1992

Wagner Tannhäuser

After Jessye Norman's Carmen for Philips, it's Placido Domingo's Tannhauser—the big names in parts that they wouldn't attempt on stage....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1989

Rorem Songs

If Rorem's songs are not as well-known as those of Copland or Cole Porter, the two American composers whose songs...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 5/2000

Rózsa Viola Concerto; Hungarian Serenade

The recording industry’s sustained interest in Rózsa’s concert music is heartening and this new disc from Naxos is its latest...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 3/2009

Vaughan Williams Symphonies Nos 8 and 9

A friendly word of warning to VW fans everywhere: Haitink will make you think again. No ‘little’ Eighth, this, rather...

Reviewed in issue 5/2001

SIbelius Violin & Orchestra Wks

I have a lot of time for Pekka Kuusisto’s fine version of the Sibelius Violin Concerto with Leif Segerstam (Ondine,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2006

Verdi La Traviata

A moving and memorable Traviata, more so than the sound recording on Teldec (2/93) with the same principals and conductor,...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/2000

Rachmaninov Etudes-Tableaux

I have admired Gordon Fergus-Thompson's playing since I first heard him in a broadcast some six years ago. Then he...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1992

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