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Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Vol. 5
Beethoven's Op. 10 Sonatas are natural companions on disc, summing up as they do the achievements of his early keyboard...
Reviewed in issue 12/1990
Balbastre Sonatas a Quatre
Following on from the Devienne bassoon sonatas I reviewed recently (Accent, 11/94), here is another release which shows just how...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 3/1995
Glinka; Rimsky-Korsakov Chamber Works
Of these two works the Rimsky-Korsakov is the stronger with its engagingly garrulous hop, skip and jump finale, which cannot...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1986
Adamo Little Women
Houston Grand Opera Orchestra | Joyce DiDonato | Patrick Summers
I reviewed this March 2000 taping when it was released on public television in 2001 and found Little Women to...
Reviewed by lvittes in issue: 3/2011
Lanier Hero & Leander
Christopher Wilson | Clare Salaman | Jonathan Manson | Paul Agnew | Rachel Podger
Nicholas Lanier fits like a glove into the haute couture of Charles I’s court. As the first ‘Master of the...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 7/1999
R. Strauss Feuersnot
Performance of Strauss’s second opera has virtually been confined, through its 97-year-old history, to Strauss headquarters in Munich (it still...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1998
Piano Concertos
‘Arr. H. Lane Wilson’ was a familiar feature of song-recital programmes in the earlier years of the century. The tunes...
Reviewed in issue 6/1999
Mahler Symphony No 5
Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Georg Solti
Nobody could complain that Mahler's Fifth Symphony is under-represented in the catalogue. It isn't simply that there are so many...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 1/1992
Widor: Organ Symphonies
A splendid performance of the Toccata from the Fifth Symphony, played at Orleans Cathedral (Cavaille-Coll) is a curtain raiser for...
Reviewed in issue 1/1986
Vivaldi Flute Concertos
Academy of St Martin in the Fields | Iona Brown | Michala Petri
It is a fine academic point whether these Op. 10 concertos were originally written for recorder or transverse flute. When...
Reviewed in issue 2/1986
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