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Bach St Luke's Passion

Those who love Bach will want to investigate the St Luke Passion, not because it necessarily confirms or disabuses us...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 9/1997

Viardot-Garcia Songs

Pauline Viardot was the daughter of Manuel Garcia, Rossini's first Count Almaviva, and the younger sister of Maria Malibran whom...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1990

Tancredi Pasero (1893-1983) - II

Italy's principal resident bass in the 1930s and 1940s was eclipsed in the larger world view by their leading export...

Reviewed in issue 4/1995

Corelli: La Folia and other Sonatas

One of the most persistent false images of musical history has been that of Corelli as a gentle, mild player...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 9/1987

Dancla Sonata No 1; Massenet Meditation; Saint-Saëns Petite Ecole de la Melodie

It may seem odd having Saint-Saëns coupled with a sequence of pieces by Charles Dancla, but the mixture works well...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2009

Alwyn Symphonies Nos 2 & 5; Lyra Angelica

No sooner had I finished Peter Donohoe’s latest concerto disc above than this second volume in Naxos’s Alwyn series arrived....

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/2005

Puccini Orchestral Excerpts

The main point of listening to the very early Capriccio sinfonico is for the shock of hearing in its main...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1991

Haydn arr de Fossa Guitar Duos, Vol 1

Klangforum Wien (and Kairos) pursue their championship of new music with this programme of four pieces for large ensemble by...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 8/2003

Nielsen: Organ Works

Ask any Nielsen-lover about the organ works and you will probably encounter unqualified enthusiasm. They are all late pieces, with...

Reviewed in issue 9/1990

Wagner (Das) Rheingold

Suggesting that the theatrical wizard Richard Wagner anticipated contemporary cinematic techniques is like claiming that his music prefigured modernism and...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/2010

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