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Handel Royal Fireworks Music; Water Music

All credit to Hervé Niquet for celebrating the 15th anniversary of his group, Le Concert Spirituel, by assembling a hundred...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/2003

China Girl: Vanessa-Mae - The Classical Album 2

Vanessa-Mae’s first “Classical Album” (on EMI) has been a world-wide best seller and was still, at the time of writing,...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1998

Britten Spring Symphony etc

Acetate surface showers across the Spring Symphony rather like spring rain, and yet the general mood of the occasion survives...

Reviewed in issue 9/1994

Music for the Courts of Europe

The majestic sound of assembled brass is well suited to the music of Henry VIII, a monarch of majestic proportions,...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 7/1988

(The) Golden Age - Siglo de Oro

The King’s Singers mark their 40th anniversary this year. In London their first celebratory concert was devoted to music of...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/2008

Bo Holten Sinfonia Concertante; Clarinet Concerto

The Danish composer Bo Holten (b. 1948) states his objectives with exemplary clarity in the booklet. Simply because we live...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 7/1994

Rachmaninov Préludes; Moments musicaux

In terms of musical style, Richard Strauss’s lyrical Op 18 (1887) sits poised somewhere between Brahms’s chivalrous song-cycle Die schone...

Reviewed in issue 5/2001

Manuel Barrueco plays Bach and De Visée

The so-called 'baroque' guitar is a recognizable ancestor of today's classic instrument, but whereas the modern instrument has six single...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 2/1991

Caprice viennois

A couple of years ago I spoke to Isaac Stern about possible future recording projects, with particular reference to hearing...

Reviewed in issue 8/1998

Simpson Symphonies Nos. 1 and 8

Damn it all, you’d think Hyperion would have the grace to slip in at least one less-than-wonderful instalment in their...

Reviewed in issue 2/1997

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