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Mahler Symphony No 1

I remember speculating at the time of my com parative review for the BBC Radio 3's ''Record Review'', how different...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/1988

Great Singers, Vol.1

This disc is best viewed as a kind of sampler. It surveys the scene, without any pretensions to being comprehensive...

Reviewed in issue 10/1989

Machaut Motets

This is a landmark recording and a courageous venture. It is probably the first devoted to Machaut’s motets, containing no...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 5/2004

Bartolotti (Di) Chitarra Spagnolà

In this disc featuring the guitar and lute music of Angiol Michele Bartolotti (c1615-c1682), an Italian musician associated with the...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 11/2010

Chopin Etudes

Whereas more recent contenders like Lortie (Chandos), Berezovsky (Teldec) and Wild (Chesky) found room for the Trois Nouvelles Etudes as...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 5/1993

Ganassi - Io amai sempre

A Venetian living in the first half of the 16th century, Ganassi published three of the earliest treatises setting out...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 5/2009

Bliss Orchestral Works

If I were to describe this concerto as Rachmaninov's Fifth, or even Grieg's Second, I suppose it would be taken...

Reviewed in issue 8/1990

Bach Partitas

In transplanting harpsichord music to the piano there are things that are acceptable and believable, and other things which are...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 2/1987

Mercadante Virginia

What’s in a date? Rather a lot, probably, in the case of this, Mercadante’s laststaged opera, produced in Naples in...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 6/2009

Bernstein Symphony No 3, 'Kaddish'; Chichester Psalms

The word ‘chutzpah’ might have been invented for Leonard Bernstein’s Kaddish Symphony. Not content with challenging the great deity in...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 5/2006

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