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(The) Legendary Dame Janet Baker

Outstanding here is the Elgar, perhaps because it is the one romantic composition in an essentially classical programme: for whatever...

Reviewed in issue 9/1999

Mozart Piano Concertos Nos. 19 and 27

Alicia de Larrocha’s and Sir Colin Davis’s Mozart concerto cycle, while rarely less than distinguished, grows in stature with each...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/1997

Sorabji Legendary Works for Piano

The music of Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji acquired mythic status long before his death in 1988 at the age of 96,...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 9/2004

French Sacred Choral Works

The first performance I ever heard of Faure's Requiem was in Messiaen's church La Trinite, during the obsequies of Nadia...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 10/1990

Martinu Complete Work for Violin and Orchestra

At the 2003 Martinu Festival in Prague I had the good fortune to hear Bohuslav Matousek and Jennifer Koh give...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2007

Villa-Lobos: Piano Works

With so pathetically scanty a representation of Villa-Lobos's piano music in the catalogues at present, the appearance—however belatedly in the...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1987

Wagner - The Epic Story of an Egnimatic Genius

At first glance, the work of Tony Palmer and his writer Charles Wood looks like a good, old-fashioned Hollywood biopic,...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 9/2005

Bach Organ Works

The six Trio Sonatas could normally be comfortably accommodated on a single CD. The fact that Naxos spread them over...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 5/1994

(Le) Divin Arcadelt: Candlemas in Renaissance Rome

Today, Arcadelt’s claim to fame rests in his madrigals: his first book in the genre was reprinted dozens of times...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 8/2011

Tchaikovsky Orchestral Works

Strong and direct, relying for the most part on broad, steady speeds, Dohnanyi's reading of the symphony has plenty of...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1992

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