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Handel Concerti Grossi

There is an appealing spring in the step of these performances of the first six concertos of Handel's great Op....

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1992

Bax; Ireland Piano Concertos

This seems to be an age of completions. If a composer was unfortunate enough to die without finishing a piece...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 12/2009

Borodin/Dargomizhsky Songs

Borodin’s songs have become better known in the West of late, and this recital should draw further attention to some...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1996

Simpson Symphonies

We have had to wait a long time for the first recording of Simpson's Fifth Symphony—22 years last May, to...

Reviewed in issue 2/1995

Herrmann, B Psycho Suite

Many commercial composers have felt obliged to become stylistic chameleons but not Bernard Herrmann. While he may have been unhappy...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 6/2011

Handel Arias

Bayo starts with an aria that is always a sure winner, Cleopatra's triumphal celebration in Giulio Cesare of her brother's...

Reviewed in issue 6/2000

D. Matthews Chamber Works

Writing of the ''reaffirmation of vitality'' which ends his Sixth String Quartet, David Matthews pin-points the essentially positive quality that...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/1995

The Burton Lane Songbook, Vol.2

Only dedicated film buffs know the 1939 Bob Hope comedy Some like it Hot (no connection with the Billy Wilder...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 8/1994

Loevendie Miscellaneous Works

The Dutch composer Theo Loevendie, now 61, 'crossed over' from jazz to serious music relatively late in life, and the...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/1991

Fuchs & Mahler Piano Quartets

With repertoire so interesting and unfamiliar as this, it is disappointing that the information on the sleeve-note is so thin....

Reviewed in issue 6/1987

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