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Menotti Amahl and the Night Visitors

A new recording of this perennially popular nativity play for children (it has almost certainly been heard by more people...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1988

Soler Keyboard Sonatas

Soler's keyboard sonatas have until now fared badly in the catalogues, at least on the harpsichord, almost nothing so far...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 5/1989

Bach Cantatas BWV 82 and 199

Michael Steinberg is surely correct when he writes in his booklet note that Bach’s cantatas ‘are sermons in verse and...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2003

Karlowicz Orchestral Works

This second BBC Philharmonic Karowicz disc complements the first (10/02) with three earlier works. Not that there are any late,...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 5/2004

English Music for Strings

I had the pleasure of reviewing the Guildhall String Ensemble's first record of British music last year ( RD87761, 9/88)....

Reviewed in issue 5/1989

Bartók: String Quartets

The Third is probably the toughest of the Bartok string quartets: more uncompromising in its language than Nos. 1 and...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 6/1989

Mozart Symphonies

Jeffrey Tate, designated Principal Conductor at Covent Garden alongside Bernard Haitink as Music Director, is a most stylish Mozartian, and...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1985

Handel Choice of Hercules (The)

In 1749 Handel composed music for a play‚ Alceste‚ by Tobias Smollett but in the following year the plans for...

Reviewed in issue 7/2002

Kancheli: Symphonies

In my review of his Third and Sixth Symphonies last September I described Kancheli as ''a genuinely distinctive symphonic voice...

Reviewed in issue 4/1991

James Galway - O'Reilly Street

French jazz pianist and composer Claude Bolling wrote his jazz/Baroque crossover Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano for Jean-Pierre Rampal...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2008

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