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Wagner en français

Having eagerly looked forward to this disc, I was in the event disappointed. Although some of these performances evince (pace...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1994

(The) Leo Weiner Album

Tempting though it is to sum up 20th-century Hungarian composition as a simple progression from Bartók and Kodály to Ligeti...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/2003

Lotte Lehmann sings Operatic Arias

Seventy three minutes of Lehmann. What a delight! Very many of her most famous roles are remembered here. Particularly in...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1988

Fauré (La) Bonne Chanson; Piano Trio

When this disc was first issued, it offered the only recording of La bonne chanson in the version Faure scored...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 5/1990

Verdi Falstaff

After one has grown up with a much-loved recording, no other ever seems to match it. That is the case...

Reviewed in issue 10/1999

Debussy Piano Works

This is a recital of notably sensitive playing, but with too little of the mature composer to make a satisfying...

Reviewed in issue 4/1985

Magadalena Kozená - Songs My Mother Taught Me

Magdalena Kozená’s heartwarming new album takes its title from one of the best-loved of all Czech songs, the centrepiece of...

Reviewed by John Allison in issue: 13/2008

Mendelssohn Piano Works

Throughout this delightful, heart-easing recital Valerie Tryon plays as she always has done, with peerless musical grace and fluency. There...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2006

Ireland Piano Works (Complete)

Fans of John Ireland’s exquisitely idiomatic piano music are treated to a cornucopia of delights as the first volume in...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2008

Lalo Symphonie espagnole;Saint-Saëns Violin ConcertoNo 3

Chee-Yun is yet another of the formidable string-players to have emerged from South Korea in recent years. After successes there...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1997

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