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British Light Music Premieres

Dutton has taken up with alacrity continuation of the British light music recordings previously on the White Line label. The...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 11/2007

Schumann Chamber Works

This latest coupling of the Quintet and Quartet reached me only an hour or two after that of Martha Argerich...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 1/1996

Beethoven Cello Sonatas, Vol 2

These performances are strongly characterised, clearly etched and full of life and drama. The account of the D major Sonata’s...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 5/2010

Leo Sacred Vocal Music

A prolific composer (of opera as well as sacred music)‚ Leonardo Leo lived‚ studied and worked in Naples until at...

Reviewed in issue 10/2001

Bel Canto arias

'Considering' can be a most inconsiderately used word, but it is hardly to be avoided here. We'll put it another...

Reviewed in issue 10/1986

Handel Concerti grossi Op 6

Handel’s inventive Twelve Grand Concertos (written in 1739) contain an amazing variety of compositional techniques, notwithstanding their strict orchestral parameters...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2010

Haydn Orfeo et Euridice

Haydn’s final opera, written for London in 1791, fell victim to the famous feud between George III and the Prince...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 9/1999

Buxtheude Vocal Works Vol 2

The second collection of vocal works in Ton Koopman’s admirable endeavour to record the extant works by Dieterich Buxtehude is...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2007

French Harp Chamber Music

Few would deny that French composers have much enriched the harp repertory, or that French makers have contributed much to...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 2/1994

Purcell Dido & Aeneas

William Christie's approach in this latest 'authentic' Dido as much in common with that of Andrew Parrott's now famous mould-breaking...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 7/1986

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