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Bridge Orchestral works

Each time I hear Bridge’s Dance Rhapsody (1908) I wonder how such a rapturously tuneful work can be so shamefully...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2007

Josquin Desprez Motets and Chansons

Few composers of any century can have been so much written about and yet so little performed as Josquin Desprez....

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 3/1984

Corelli Concerti Grossi, Op.6

Never before have Corelli's 12 Concerti grossi, Op. 6 been so plentifully represented on disc. This new set from Ensemble...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1992

Brahms Music for Piano, 4 Hands

Here is a useful coupling. These duettists were new to me, but they are quite well represented in the current...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 4/1994

Debussy (La) Mer; Iberia; Ravel Ma Mère l'Oye

These are excerpts from the more than 150 live concerts broadcast by Boston’s public television station WGBH between 1955 and...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 9/2011

Vivaldi Complete Manchester Sonatas

It is now 20 years since the Vivaldi scholar, Michael Talbot by chance discovered these 12 violin sonatas in Manchester's...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1994

Amor e Gelosia - Operatic Duets

Handel always had a wonderful feeling for the human voice, and more than doubly wonderful when it comes to two...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 10/2004

Eastern European Piano Music

These four concertante pieces actually make two contrasting pairs rather than a mosaic. Ustvolskaya and Gubaidulina are the two prophets...

Reviewed in issue 8/1996

Schumann symphonies

I had great difficulty here getting beyond the relative crudeness of both recording and execution. Given the quality of competition,...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 7/1989

Sessions Symphonies

Sessions’s first five symphonies are already on CD so the addition of three more is a real breakthrough for his...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 4/1996

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