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The best live Italian version in the best sound available [RMo]

A classic historical recording is given a new lease of life in Ambient Stereo [RMo]

A magnificently grim, steady account, bringing out all the might and menace of this most ambivalent of Bruckner’s symphonies [RMo]

Pristine’s remastering into Ambient Stereo both enhances the beauty of Callas’ Norma and amplifies that which is less admirable here [RMo]

A beautifully performed and recorded account in which everything is done right [RMo]

A wild, driven performance which oozes personality and conviction, now cleaned up to an unprecedentedly high standard [RMo]

A fine live account which despite a few quibbles sustains interest throughout its taut execution [RMo]

A beautifully engineered recording which simply exudes the joy of music-making [RMo]

Cool, restrained and beautifully played in Nordic style [RMo]

Perhaps little more than an abridged curiosity, but mostly well done within the limitations of the form [RMo]

A survey by Ralph Moore

An admirable effort to reconstruct the original version of a once popular work which veers between the highly entertaining and the banal [RMo]

A re-release of three great recordings on a different label, whose raison d’être eludes me… [RMo]

A fine, dramatic, beautifully sung live recording headed by Finley’s noble Elijah [RMo]

A good account of some of Puccini’s youthful works which is not necessarily an improvement on Pappano’s rival version [RMo]

Put aside preconceptions of “authenticity” and enjoy this for what it is – a celebration of some of Rameau’s most appealing music [RMo]

Superb, sensuous, subtle singing from a highly gifted British lyric baritone [RMo]

Yet another classic opera recording given new lustre by Pristine’s remastering [RMo]

A real mixed bag, maddeningly inconsistent with some quirky and mannered decisions [RMo]

An under-rated, somewhat overlooked recording featuring an array of superb voices, very well conducted [RMo]

A mightily impressive debut recording from Stutzmann in Atlanta [RMo]

Pristine’s splendid enhancement of this recording into Ambient Stereo further minimises the differences between this and Callas’ recording seven years later [RMo]

For all that I thoroughly enjoy this recording, the less textually correct Bonynge still retains its places in the affections [RMo]

Once again, I find myself questioning the validity and purpose of such arrangements [RMo]