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Bach in Brazil

The universality of Bach’s music has been well established by the wide variety of ‘inauthentic’ treatments it has been subjected...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 8/2000

Crawford Seeger (The) World of Ruth Crawford Seeger

I think that every note of Ruth Crawford Seeger’s solo piano music is on this disc‚ and it adds up...

Reviewed in issue 6/2002

Rossini Péchés de Vieillesse 6, Album pour les efants dégourdis

The 12-piece “Album for bright children” includes some of the most frequently anthologised of Rossini’s late piano pieces. Naxos’s 30-year-old...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/2009

Weber (Der) Freischütz

Der Freischütz is a work on which young German opera conductors cut their teeth and to which old German conductors...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/2008

Magnard: Orchestral Works

Until Ansermet's Decca recording of Magnard's Third Symphony reached us in 1969, it is safe to say that his music...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 1/1989

Beethoven/Schubert Piano Trios

One reason why the recordings by Thibaud, Cortot and Casals have such a wonderful freshness is that the players came...

Reviewed in issue 10/1989

Ravel Vocal & Orchestral Works

At opposite interpretative poles in Sheherazade are Suzanne Danco (1954 Decca Historic) and Maria Ewing (1989 EMI): the former with...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/1993

Mozart Coronation Mass, K317; Missa solemnis, K337

The Masses in C, K317 and 337, which date from 1779 and 1780 respectively, are the last of Mozart's 15...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 10/1984

Britten Peter Grimes

This is, on the whole, an inspired performance in a superbly lifelike recording, adding to the happy history of the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1993

Vivaldi Flute Concertos, Op.10

There is no shortage of recordings, both on LP and CD, of these perennial Vivaldi flute favourites. Only recently I...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1987

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