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Chopin Etudes

Chopin’s 24 Etudes remain among the most cruelly elusive as well as formidable challenges. Pragmatic at one level (the mastery...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/0

Wagner Der fliegende Holländer

When Philip Hope-Wallace first reviewed the Sawallisch/Bayreuth set back in 1962 he suggested that you had to choose between the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1994

Chopin Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

‘The accompaniments for Chopin’s concertos are perfect’, a veteran pianist claimed in an interview, ‘but you have to have the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/1999

Solemn Mass in St Peter's Basilica, Rome

An amazing record, this: a performance of Mozart's Coronation Mass offered as a feast-day tribute to the Pope on St...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 7/1986

R. Strauss Orchestral Works

Klemperer may have been ambivalent (and hypocritical) in his attitude to Richard Strauss as a man, but when it came...

Reviewed in issue 5/1990

Gluck Ezio

Long before he set out to purge opera of excess and ‘abuses’ with his epoch-making Orfeo and Alceste, Gluck composed...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2011

Bach (Die) Kunst der Fuge

All manner of means have been assembled to realize this magnum opus of Bach’s final years, although recorded history tells...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 7/1999

Handel Poro, Re dell'Indie

Poro is the second, and certainly the best, of the three Handel operas based on texts by the young Metastasio—suitably...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 11/1994

Hersant Choral Works

Music of profound spirituality or glum monotony? I can imagine listeners having either of these responses, or elements of both,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/2004

Verdi Il trovatore - highlights

A few seconds of A/B comparison between the CD and LP versions here illustrates the effortless superiority of the former:...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1985

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