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Lully Bourgeois Gentilhomme; Campra L'Europa galante

This two-CD album brings together the two earliest recordings by La Petite Bande. They were made in 1973 and feature...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1991

Webern Complete Vocal Chamber Works

Dorothy Dorow has already recorded Webern's songs with piano accompaniment for Etcetera/Harmonia Mundi ((CD) KTC2008, 12/88), and MEO's response to...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 5/1990

Irene Scharrer

Here is a delightful and necessary reminder of a pianist who, in her heyday, played with an enviable facility, charm...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/1994

Purcell King Arthur

When I last viewed the state of King Arthur in these columns (8/90), the only available comparison was John Eliot...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 9/1992

Sondheim Passion Original Broadway Cast

Passion is effectively a musical without songs. Which may in part explain why it appears to have divided even fully...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/1995

Kernis Colored Field, etc

Kernis’s teacher was John Adams but his own blend of the overtly eclectic with the overtly emotional makes him sound...

Reviewed in issue 11/1996

MacMillan; Purcell Bright Orb Of Harmony

The title of this superb new disc from The Sixteen is taken from John Talbot’s “Ode upon the death of...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 6/2009

Bach Brandenburg Concertos. Triple Concerto

La Stravaganza, under their director/harpsichordist Siegbert Rampe, are a Hamburg-based ensemble as yet hardly known in the UK. I had...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1997

(The) Music of Dance

A programme of dances, written or arranged for the guitar, is a viable concept but not a new one. Kerstens...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 10/2003

Mozart Symphonies Nos 16-18 & 21

These are very compelling, very intense performances of four symphonies from 1772, written when Mozart was 16. I find it...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 10/1999

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