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Gershwin Orchestral Works

Tortelier, the Frenchman in New York, and Shelley, the Englishman abroad, surprised me with their first Gershwin package (3/93). I...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 4/1995

Boccherini: Cello Concertos

Only last month I reviewed a recording of the Cello Concerto in B flat arranged by Friedrich Grutzmacher (CBS IM39964,...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/1988

Chopin Piano Recital, Volume 2

Here is the eagerly awaited second volume of Kissin's 1993 Carnegie Hall Chopin recital (Vol. 1 was reviewed in May)....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/1994

Bach Complete Cantatas, Volume 9

As Koopman's Cantata cycle reaches its mid-point, both director and composer are in full swing. This volume continues the first...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 6/2000

Hindemith (Die) Harmonie der Welt

‘The opera Die Harmonie der Welt is without any doubt one of Hindemith’s major works,’ states Giselher Schubert at the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 8/2003

Vivaldi Dixir Dominus, RV594; Beatus vir, RV597

I have always had a particular affection for the larger of Vivaldi's two settings of Beatus vir. My first encounter...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 5/1986

Monteverdi Selve Morale

Seventeenth-century music, and particularly the work of Monteverdi, has become something of a preoccupation of Les Arts Florissants and their...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 7/1987

Purcell Verse Anthems

While New College Choir have become a star attraction of the subliminal choral experience (most notably through Agnus Dei settings...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/2000

Goldenthal Othello

Like many others, I was hugely impressed by Elliot Goldenthal’s score for Neil Jordan’s The Butcher Boy earlier this year,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/1998

Schütz Psalmen Davids

This is a fine collection of Schutz’s psalm settings, but best not listened to at one sitting, since the variety...

Reviewed in issue 3/1997

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