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Purcell (The) Food of Love

Paul Agnew is perhaps most readily associated with the French Baroque, but he is equally at home in English music....

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 2/2010

D Scarlatti Harpsichord Sonatas, Volume 5

The late Scott Ross is still the only harpsichordist to have recorded all the Scarlatti sonatas (for Erato, 6/88), but...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 10/1996

Brahms/Rossini/Tchaikovsky Vocal Works

Another archive treasure mined from the catacombs of Broadcasting House comes blinking into the sunlight. A reminder, on this occasion,...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/1999

For the End of Time

Josefowicz claims that when she first encountered the last movement of Bartok’s First Violin Sonata, she had never heard anything...

Reviewed in issue 7/1998

Nicolai Ghiaurov - Operatic Arias

How they did love him in Vienna! And with good reason. As Ewald Marld recounts in his excellent accompanying essay,...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/2006

Ivanovs Symphonies Nos 8 and 20

Peteris Vasks may be Latvia’s most well-known composer internationally but Janis Ivanovs (1906-83) is the country’s principal symphonist. From 1933...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 5/2004

British Orchestral Works

Bridge's Suite dates from 1910, the same year as Vaughan Williams's Tallis Fantasia, but has never become as popular. As...

Reviewed in issue 10/1988

Liszt Orchestral Works

Imagining the differences between Willi Boskovsky and Antal Dorati (Mercury) in Liszt's Six Hungarian Rhapsodies is a fairly easy task,...

Reviewed in issue 6/1993

Café Fiddle

Fifteen popular violin encores composed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries which, as Dennis D Rooney reminds us...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 1/2010

Sibelius - Orchestral Rarities

There is a danger, with a composer as variable in quality as Sibelius, that a disc of ‘rarities’ will be...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 13/1999

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