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Pizzetti Piano Concerto, 'Canti della stagione alta'; Rondo Veneziano

The annual festival mounted jointly by Radio France and the Orchestre National de Montepellier Languedoc-Roussillon is admirable in its determination...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2008

Parry Orchestral Works

I always felt the only performance in Matthias Bamert’s invaluable Parry series for Chandos which didn’t quite measure up to...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/1996

Vivaldi: Double Concertos

Though he occasionally left us in some doubt as to exactly what he intended, Vivaldi's generosity in supplying concertos extended...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 7/1986

Boyce David's Lamentation over Saul & Jonathan etc

This third disc in ASV’s excellent Boyce series offers a wholly unfamiliar work, indeed one that shows an unfamiliar side...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 4/2001

Goostly Psalmes-Anglo-American Psalmody

This anthology represents two-and-a-half centuries of church music designed for congregational singing on both sides of the Atlantic. The majority...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 9/1996

A. Scarlatti Stabat mater; Flute Sonata

This new release from Hungaroton features two late compositions by Alessandro Scarlatti. The main work is the Stabat mater but...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1986

Wagner Siegfried

For more than 50 years the Ring recorded by Decca at Bayreuth in 1955 has lain unheard in the company’s...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/2006

Maxwell Davies The Lighthouse

The Lighthouse is so gripping in the theatre that one fears some of that quality will be lost on a...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 1/1995

Sibelius Symphony No 2; Pohjola's Daughter

What Sir Colin Davis has to say about Sibelius’s Second Symphony hasn’t changed in substance since his first recording with...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 6/2007

Verdi Oberto

An exciting cast, suitably vigorous conducting and a lifelike recording make this a spectacular addition to Philips’s repertory of Young...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1997

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