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Cabaret Songs
Can it be just the transfer from LP to CD, or differences in our listening equipment and/or room acoustics, that...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 3/1989
Bartók Orchestral Works, Vol.1
Budapest Festival Orchestra | Hungarian Radio Chorus
As Mandarins go, they don’t come more miraculous than this – a vivid, no-holds-barred performance that henceforth tops my list...
Reviewed in issue 8/1997
Vivaldi La Stravaganza
Arte dei Suonatori | Rachel Podger
By the standards of the average Vivaldi violin concerto, the La stravaganza set is quite extravagant stuff, full of fantasy...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/2003
Fox (A) Glimpse of Sion's glory
Benjamin Bayl | Exaudi | James Weeks
The composer bears a venerable name. I don’t know whether Christopher Fox (b1955) is descended from either the Quaker founder...
Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 3/2006
Debussy; Dutilleux; Ravel String Quartets
Admirers of the Arcanto Quartet will lap this disc up, and it deserves to be a spur to anybody who...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2010
Bach Harpsichord Concertos, Vol 3
When reviewing a previous volume (12/96) of this complete series of Bach’s harpsichord concertos I was forced to express disappointment...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 7/1999
Delius Orchestral Works
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra | Richard Hickox
Debussy's fawn would seem to have strayed into a Lincolnshire field at the opening of Hickox's Brigg Fair. There are...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/1991
A Solo - Paolo Pandolfo
Seventy-seven minutes of music for unaccompanied viola da gamba? Well yes, and every second of it is a pleasure in...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 8/1998
Hammered Brass
Christopher Terian | Kevin Hathway | Wallace Collection
With The Wallace Collection about to reform in a new guise‚ the appearance of these two discs is a timely...
Reviewed in issue 6/2002
Schubert Divertissements
Alexei Lubimov | Andreas Staier
Schubert’s Divertissement a la hongroise, his most flamboyant essay in the Hungarian vernacular style, has always overshadowed the Divertissement on...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 6/1998
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