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Arnell; Bate; Chisholm Orchestral Works
Martin Yates | Royal Scottish National Orchestra
This latest Dutton release of hitherto neglected British music serves as a worthwhile pendant to various previous CDs of the...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 4/2010
Scarlatti, A Cantatas and Chamber Works
Clara Rottsolk | Tempesta di Mare
Recorder player Gywn Roberts proclaims to the reader that Alessandro Scarlatti’s life story would “make a great movie”; I doubt...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 7/2010
Knecht (Die) Aeolsharfe
Christina Landshamer | Frieder Bernius | Mark Adler | Stuttgart Chamber Choir | Stuttgart Hofkapelle
Justin Heinrich Knecht (1752-1817) spent most of his life in his native Biberach, where he held a variety of musical...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 8/2009
Evgenia Rubinova - Fantasien
Boris Giltburg | Evgenia Rubinova
A fine all-Russian programme and a fine young Russian artist (b1984, Moscow), though fully deserving of this prestigious calling card,...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 8/2006
Zelenka Requiem in D; Miserere in C
Zelenka's Requiem is a valuable addition to the steadily growing discography of the composer's sacred vocal music. It has not...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 12/1995
Schumann (Das) Paradies und die Peri
Initially envisaged as an opera, Schumann’s haunting 1843 oratorio Das Paradies und die Peri tells of how a Peri –...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2008
Korngold piano sonatas
This CD really is a delightful find. Dropping into my favourite seat after a day in the garden and slipping...
Reviewed in issue 7/1987
Hear My Words
Andrew Nethsingha | St John's College Choir, Cambridge | Timothy Ravalde
A word of reassurance to those who fear that this may be a “lovely” programme of hallowed pot-boilers – and...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 1/2011
Bach & Vivaldi Sacred Choral Works
This new release of Bach's Magnificat in its later D major version and the better known of Vivaldi's two D...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1992
Bach Organ Works
Of the plethora of Bach recitals on CD, this must be one of the very best; if not the best....
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 6/1990
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