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Myaskovsky Symphonic Works

Even if you invested in Warner’s boxed Myaskovsky edition, a surprise Award-winner last year, there are grounds for exploring these...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 5/2010

Caplet; Ibert; Salzedo Harp Works

I have a confession to make. When my son was small, he often had trouble falling asleep at night. My...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 5/2009

The Queen's Delight-17th Century English Ballads

Various buckets have been dipped into the deep well of seventeenth-century English ballads and dances but few have come up...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 7/1997

Rachmaninov (The) Miserly Knight

Like The Merchant of Venice, The Miserly Knight is nothing if not problematic. It’s a setting of Pushkin, whose faux-medieval...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 3/2005

Locatelli L'Arte del Violino, Op 3

When Locatelli performed his concertos on tour in the 1720s, he probably played two at most on any given occasion....

Reviewed in issue 1/1995

Paisiello Don Chisciotte

Don Chisciotte is a fast­moving comic opera‚ loosely based on Cervantes’ international best­seller‚ to a libretto by Giovanni Battista Lorenzi‚...

Reviewed in issue 3/2002

Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Vol 2

No more imperious or mesmeric pianist has ever existed than Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. His psychological complexity is evident at every...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2000

Telemann Darmstadt Overtures

Telemann's connection with Darmstadt is typical of a composer who cast his net widely on the path to becoming Germany's...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/1994

Historic French Orchestral Recordings

Collectors who remember the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra from its records of the late 1950s and early 1960s will have little...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 11/1991

British Light Music Classics, Vol 4

So here’s another welcome dip into the bran­tub of British Light Music Classics; and the mix is much as usual....

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

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