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Review of Grieg Orchestral Songs

Grieg Orchestral Songs

The first 30 minutes of this CD – the last in the Bergen orchestra’s series of the composer’s orchestral music...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 5/2007

Review of Hildegard of Bingen Ordo Virtutum

Hildegard of Bingen Ordo Virtutum

Here are two more titles to be added to the growing number of recordings of the music of Hildegard of...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 13/1998

Review of Mozart Violin Sonatas

Mozart Violin Sonatas

Virgin are generous indeed in offering Mozart's last three violin sonatas (if we except the Sonatina, K547) on a single...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 4/1991

Review of Dvorák/Smetana String Quartets

Dvorák/Smetana String Quartets

Not surprisingly, there are quite a few records coupling these two most popular of Czech string quartets, recent ones among...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/1996

Review of Beethoven: Piano Sonatas

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas

This programme of Beethoven piano sonatas presents an excellent opportunity for Varjon to display his expressive range and fluent keyboard...

Reviewed in issue 3/1996

Review of Bach Mass in B minor

Bach Mass in B minor

In these days of period-instrument hegemony in the performance of Bach, this ‘old-fashioned’ B minor Mass may be considered an...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Review of 20th Century Piano Sonatas

20th Century Piano Sonatas

Berg’s Op 1 (1908) and Hindemith’s Second Sonata (1936) might seem strange bedfellows, especially given Hindemith’s antipathy to atonality, but...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 11/2007

Review of Morales Missa de Beata Virgine & Motets

Morales Missa de Beata Virgine & Motets

Thankfully, the generation of composers born c1500 need no longer be described as “lost”: with recordings like this appearing with...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 9/2007

Review of Verdi Don Carlos

Verdi Don Carlos

This completes Opera Rara’s invaluable issues of first versions of Verdi’s operas, broadcast on Radio 3 in the 1970s. In...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/2006

Review of Rodrigo Orchestral Works, Vol 1

Rodrigo Orchestral Works, Vol 1

Throughout his life Rodrigo remained focused on the history, culture and topography of his native country; every musical utterance has...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/2002


 

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