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Pärt; Sierra; Vivaldi Works for Guitar and Orchestra

In an episode from Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier’s novel Concierto Barroco, Handel, Vivaldi and a Cuban slave jam during carnevale...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 2/2006

Parra Hypermusic Prologue

“Boy meets Girl. Boy loves Girl. Girl (who happens to be both a composer and a particle physicist) is torn...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 9/2010

Alma Gluck

“I can think of no soprano whose records have given me more enduring pleasure over many years.” Our founding Editor...

Reviewed in issue 13/1997

Pergolesi Stabat Mater; Rossini Petite messe solennelle

I am not sure why Erato has chosen to emblazon on the front of this latest recording of the Petite...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/1989

Handel Dixit Dominus. Nisi Dominus

Handel's fresh and vigorous psalm setting Dixit Dominus (''The Lord said unto my Lord'') is one of the Latin pieces...

Reviewed in issue 11/1986

Russian Ballet Music

This new Naxos digital set of The Nutcracker is brightly and immediately recorded and the playing has plenty of zest...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1991

Shostakovich Symphony No 4

From Cologne to Munich, Berlin and now Stuttgart, the Shostakovich centenary bug really seemed to bite last year. The results...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 6/2007

Rummel Bach Piano Transcriptions, Vol 6

Volume six of Hyperion’s intriguing Bach piano transcription series consists of 25 arrangements by Walter Rummel (1887-1953), whose devotion to...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2006

Vivaldi: Concertos

My review of I Musici's recording of the first six concertos of Vivaldi's Op. 8 ((CD) 426 847-2PH, 9/90) treated...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 2/1991

Stanford:Choral and Organ Works

The mean old saying that ‘those who can, do, and those who can’t, teach’ would have withered in the presence...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/2003

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