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Shostakovich Jazz Suites Nos 1 and 2

Shostakovich’s vaudeville vein may be worlds away from the great symphonies and string quartets‚ but it too can inspire controversy....

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 8/2002

Granados Goyescas

In this spacious live performance of Granados’s masterpiece, Block is concerned with sonority and with projecting and sustaining melodic lines;...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 11/1998

Gesualdo Madrigals

For this, their first foray into the schizophrenic world of Carlo Gesualdo's five-voice madrigals, Les Arts Florissants have selected their...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 10/1988

Haydn, Mozart & Beethoven: Chamber Works

The work common to these two recordings, it can be seen, is Mozart's so-called Kegelstatt Trio for clarinet, viola and...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/1989

Pepe Romero plays Guitar Works

Pepe Romero, having pretty thoroughly combed the King of Spain's musical beard, turns his attention to South America, as his...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 1/1988

Sullivan & Co. - The Operas That Got Away

The chance to hear even brief samples of Sullivan’s non-Gilbert stage works is welcome indeed. Though Ivanhoe has been issued...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 12/1998

Penderecki Orchestral and Vocal Works

Krzysztof Penderecki's creative heyday (1950s-70s) prompted a release of dramatic aural ingenuity the like of which had not been heard...

Reviewed in issue 10/1994

The Dark is my Delight-Brian Asawa

The singing here is most distinctive at a clear, forthright forte, most pleasing at a gentle piano. The first impression...

Reviewed in issue 12/1997

Engel Lund's Book of Folk Songs

A familiar figure to British audiences from the wartime National Gallery concerts, the multilingual Danish/Icelandic singer Engel Lund was frank...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 3/2008

Treasury of English Song

Here are some old friends, fondly remembered from 78rpm days, and some discoveries (for me, at any rate). If one...

Reviewed in issue 1/1987

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