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Donizetti Don Pasquale

A stylish performance, and one which does much better for itself on film than it would merely in sound. There’s...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/2004

Russian Songs – Songs for Children

Music which is in some sense 'about' children is different from music designed 'for' children, but both are originally 19th-century...

Reviewed in issue 07/1979

Susan Graham – Il tenero momento

It's a very long time since I heard an operatic recital by a modern singer that satisfied me as much...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/2001

MOZART Così fan tutte

Così fan tutte is the most balanced and probing of all Mozart’s operas, formally faultless, musically inspired from start to...

Reviewed in issue 11/1988

BARTÓK Concertos for Piano and Orchestra

Much as one would like to tout the new as the best, there are some older recordings where a very...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/1995

Mussorgsky: Orchestral & Vocal Works

Ravel's orchestration of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition has so much established itself as the standard version (even tending to...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 06/1987

CHOPIN Mazurkas

Vladimir Ashkenazy made his integral set of the Mazurkas over a decade. He has always played outstandingly. He does so...

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BELLINI La Sonnambula die Nachtwandlerin

By one of those coincidences surely resulting from a conference held to avoid such clashes, another modern version of Bellini’s...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 05/2014

RACHMANINOV Songs

It is worth taking note of the people to whom Rachmaninov dedicated his songs. There are friends and relatives; there...

Reviewed in issue 05/2014

HAYDN Cello Concertos Nos 1 and 2 - Rostropovich

This deserves a place on any collector’s shelf. With Rostropovich directing from the bow, the ASMF sounds a little less...

Reviewed in issue 11/88

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