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Sarum Chant

A disc of chant according to the rite of Salisbury is a welcome addition to the current repertoire of chant...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 12/1988

Ninon Vallin - Complete Pathé-Art recordings, 1927-9

There are some great rarities here (six of them, we gather, existing in only one or two published copies), and...

Reviewed in issue 10/1998

Oscar Merikanto The Most Beautiful Songs

Oskar Merikanto (not to be confused with his son, Aare, of Juha fame) wrote the first ever Finnish opera, but...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 2/1997

Casadesus Symphonies Nos 1, 5 & 7

Casadesus is quoted here as saying ‘I look to Fauré, Roussel and Saint-Saëns as my models, for their form is...

Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 2/2005

Beethoven Piano Sonatas

It is rare that we hear early Beethoven played with this kind of compelling power; but surprise at the scale...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1987

Persian International Philharmonic Showcase

The brainchild of conductor/composer Alexander Rahbari, the Persian International Philharmonic comprise some 60 musicians of Iranian stock currently based in...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/1998

Denoyé Mass; Corrette, M Laudate Dominum de coelis

Jacques Antoine Denoyé, a Strasbourg church musician who died in 1759, is passed by in the music dictionaries, and the...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 6/2008

Gluck; Haydn; Mozart Amoureuses

Compared to some of her fellows – Natalie Dessay, Annick Massis, Sandrine Piau, Véronique Gens – French soprano Patricia Petibon...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2008

Mozart Concertante Works

It makes sense to play Mozart's Clarinet Concerto on the instrument for which it was written—the basset clarinet which extended...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 3/1992

Poulenc Concertos

There is no mention whatever in the skimpy notes here of the “concerto choreographique” Aubade, but all the same one...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1998

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