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Verdi Otello

It is all too typical of an age that promotes only specific artists at the expense of others that a...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1998

Gustav and Alma Mahler Lieder

The only musical portraits generally on view of Alma Schindler-Mahler are those in her husband's Fifth and unfinished Tenth Symphonies....

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 8/1990

Wagner Götterdämmerung

The Pierre Audi Amsterdam Ring wholly justifies Opus Arte’s decision to follow up so soon its uneven Harry Kupfer/Barcelona cycle....

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2006

Dohnányi Piano Concerto No 1; Ruralia Hungarica

This is a superbly recorded disc of music that says not very much but says it consummately well. Newcomers unfamiliar...

Reviewed in issue 6/2002

Beethoven String Quartets Op 18, Nos 1 & 4

It’s natural that Beethoven’s first set of quartets should be overshadowed by his later achievements. So it’s good to be...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 11/2005

Chopin Études

It is comparatively rare to encounter on disc all six of Liszt’s Chopin song transcriptions in sequence. Though No 1,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 13/2009

(The) Waltz Kings, Vol 1

The inclusion of the familiar Fruhlingsstimmen (‘Voices of Spring’) provides a handy way for anyone unfamiliar with the concept to...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 6/1999

Songs of Travel

On this evidence, Montreal-born (and now Sussex-based) Gerald Finley is a baritone of exceptional gifts. Here is a most moving...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/1998

C.P.E. Bach Vocal & Chamber Works

This attractive anthology of chamber music by C. P. E. Bach enjoyed a short life as an LP before yielding...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1992

R. Strauss Lieder

Lucia Popp's Strauss is refreshingly direct and close-communicated, and the transfer of this recital to CD underlines the fact. The...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 9/1988

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