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Maxwell-Davies Symphony No 1

I have vivid memories of 23-year-old Simon Rattle bounding onto the rostrum at the Royal Festival Hall, on February 2,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/2003

Bach Flute Sonatas

Bach the adapter and re-arranger finds imitators in three of today’s musicians, Hugo Reyne, Pierre Hantaï and Emmanuelle Guigues. They...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 10/2009

Fauré Piano Works

Admirers of Faure's piano music who already possess Paul Crossley's survey for CRD have probably also acquired Pascal Roge's recent...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 2/1991

Handel Messiah

This is the second complete recording of Handel's Messiah to be issued by Harmonia Mundi. The earlier one, under Nicholas...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1994

Piazzolla Works for Accordion and Orchestra

For most listeners familiar with Astor Piazzolla’s music, its sound world centres around the accordion, using the term in its...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2003

Oboe Music by English Composers

An obvious coupling, this trilogy of works inspired by Leon Goossens, but I don't recall it having been done before....

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1989

British Viola Works

This is one of those discs impossible to dislike but difficult to get over-excited about. Sarah-Jane Bradley, former member of...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 7/2007

C.P.E. Bach String Symphonies, Wq182

Like the lute music of Kapsberger and the key-board toccatas of Frescobaldi (even more Rossi) these strangely angular and fragmented...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 5/1986

Verdi Nabucco

Any veteran like me who might be getting a bit supercilious about the merits of early Verdi will have those...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/2007

Puccini Il Trittico

Unless you insist on the most up-to-date recorded sound, or on buying the individual operas of Puccini's trilogy separately (and...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 6/1993

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