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Poulenc: Choral Works

Robert Shaw and his Festival Singers, in splendid form, have taken the trouble to seek out a venue having a...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 10/1990

Soler Sonatas for Harpsichord, Vol 8

If you admire the music of Domenico Scarlatti, you’ll warm to Padre Antonio Soler’s. Although he devoted less energy to...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 12/2002

French Chamber Works

This is in every way a remarkable CD. Not only are the performances fused with a poetic inspiration seldom encountered...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 1/1989

Rossini Arias

Life has never been easy for the Rossini tenor. Not least because of Rossini’s own writing for a series of...

Reviewed in issue 4/2002

Buxtehude Opera Omnia XIII Trio Sonatas Op 1

Last year Ton Koopman and friends gave us an excellent first volume of Buxtehude’s chamber music (1/11) containing his unpublished...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 9/2011

Shostakovich; Weinberg Piano Quintets

In many ways Weinberg’s Piano Quintet is the natural coupling for Shostakovich’s masterpiece, which it post-dates by five years. Not...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 6/2011

Glière Horn Concerto; Bronze Horseman Suite

Poor old Gliere has had his sensitive knuckles rapped for writing the same kind of music in Soviet Russia that...

Reviewed in issue 12/1995

Schumann/Sibelius Violin Concertos

Schumann's Violin Concerto is still a vastly underrated work, but even so it is surprising that Telefunken's historically important first...

Reviewed in issue 9/1994

Delius; Vaughan Williams Orchestral Works

There are a good many issues of British music these days and very welcome they are, though inevitably there is...

Reviewed in issue 1/1985

A Grand Duo-The Clarinet and Early Romantics

Schumann mourned Norbert Burgmuller’s early death in vivid terms, grieving that, “Fate, instead of decimating the mediocrities, who are encamped...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/1998

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