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Villa-Lobos Bachiana Brasilieras Nos 1, 4, 5 & 6

I hate to nit-pick but this excellent complete Bachianas brasileiras (previous instalments having contained Nos 2‑4 and 7‑9 – 2/07)...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2007

Vivaldi Violin Concertos, Vol 1

Enrico Onofri believes that Vivaldi’s music has long been misunderstood “because of its easily enjoyable idiom”. He writes that “When...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2006

French Chamber Works

A cordial welcome to this release, which makes a good impression at once with its sound, recorded in a church...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 11/1989

Beethoven (The) Piano Concertos

An endearing “real-time” quality characterises the production values of these 1974 BBC television transmissions, notably in how host Basil Moss...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 13/2007

Czech Chamber Works

As can be seen above, Dvorak's Serenade and Krommer's E flat Octet-Partita have appeared before on CD: room has now...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1986

Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

Occasionally one hears performances in the concert hall which create a haunting and indelible memory sadly unrecorded. That is until...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2002

J.Strauss II Die Fledermaus

A super-bargain version of Johann Strauss's scintillating operetta, well-recorded in digital sound, complete with substantial dialogue, clearly has a place,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1994

Biber Mystery Sonatas

Biber’s “Mystery” or “Rosary” Sonatas are remarkable both for their musical quality and for their extraordinary use of scordatura –...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 3/2011

Tous les matins du monde (OST)

I well remember the surprise with which in 1991 I learned that a film based on the life of the...

Reviewed in issue 7/2002

Imbrie Requiem.

Born in New York city and now resident in Berkeley, California, Andrew Imbrie (b 1921) penned his 1984 Requiem in...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 4/2000

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