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Bach Lutheran Masses, Volume 2

Thank goodness the absurd prejudice that has long deprived us of adequate recordings of Bach's four Lutheran Masses (or short...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 5/2000

Bach Violin Concertos

The impression created by the first track on Michelucci's recording, the opening of the Concerto, BWV1042 is, I fear, not...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/1991

Harvard Composers

This anthology represents five composers who have taught at Harvard University covering most of the last century. The veteran is...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 12/2003

Scriabin Late Piano Works

Reflecting on the ultra-refinement of Scriabin’s late works, Stravinsky once asked, ‘Scriabin, where does he come from and who are...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Mozart Wind Concertos

With Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto now familiar in its restored original form for basset clarinet, performances on the standard clarinet tend...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 4/2006

Boughton String Quartets; Oboe Quartet No 1

Both string quartets date from 1923, a period of great personal happiness for Boughton. Not only had he recently married...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/1997

Pacius (The) Princess of Cyprus

First performed in 1860, Zacharias Topelius’s play The Princess of Cyprus, with Frederik Pacius’s incidental music, was part of a...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 2/2005

Arias de Zarzuela Barroca

Rediscovery of the Baroque Spanish zarzuela has gained impetus in recent years. The name of José Melchor de Nebra Blasco...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 3/2004

Rautavaara Kaivos, 'The Mine'

Completed in 1962 but composed largely between 1957 and 1960, The Mine is Rautavaara’s own story of miners striking against...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 6/2011

Prokofiev Chamber Works

The time when the Prokofiev quartets were rarities on record seems to have passed, though the Second always maintained a...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1992

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