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Two Sides of George Gershwin

Excellent to have all this archival material on a single CD now. The performances of Rhapsody in Blue and An...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 9/1991

A Scarlatti Cantata per la Notte di Natale

It is some three years since the release on disc of another performance of Alessandro Scarlatti’s Christmas piece Abramo, il...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1997

Skempton Bolt from the Blue

Howard Skempton’s solo clarinet Call (1983), heard on “Surface Tension” in a sensitive reading by John Corbett, tells me that...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 5/2011

Scott Lotus Land: Complete Piano Music Vol.5

This monumental collection of Scott’s piano works, including arrangements, ends with the ninth CD (some previous volumes have been double...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 9/2009

Organ Music for the Christmas Season

The cover photograph of a snowy St George's Chapel and a programme of pieces based largely on melodies associated with...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/1999

American Festival

This LP is called ''American Festival'' and is in fact an American sampler, the most predictable elements of which are...

Reviewed in issue 5/1984

Handel Ode for Queen Anne; Dixit Dominus

Handel composed Dixit Dominus in Rome in April 1707 shortly after he had turned 22. Marcus Creed’s blistering performance is...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2009

Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky & Violin Con.1

These CDs come as part of an ambitious series that Neeme Jarvi is undertaking with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra to...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 10/1984

Messiaen Turangalila Symphony

No other 20th-century composition – nothing by Strauss or Scriabin, nothing by Hollywood’s finest – outdoes the sublime earthiness of...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/2000

Rossini Armida

Tasso's tale of Armida, the temptress with supernatural powers, used to attract composers, librettists and opera house impresarios by the...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1991

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