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Gluck Alceste

The dithering and debating which normally accompany record-buying can be happily dispensed with here. The opera is a masterpiece, the...

Reviewed in issue 9/1983

Villa-Lobos: Harmonica Works

Villa-Lobos's widow, the late Mindinha, told me that her husband never wrote for an instrument without his hands-on experimentation with...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 4/1990

Handel Messiah

It is inevitable that the Handel anniversary will produce new Messiah recordings. Stephen Cleobury and the Choir of King’s College...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 9/2009

Rare Piano Encores

Those who heard Leslie Howard's delightful performances of some of these pieces at Wigmore Hall in London last June will...

Reviewed in issue 10/1984

George Benjamin Sudden Time

In his commendably straightforward notes, George Benjamin points out that what is most clearly ''sudden'' in this composition is the...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/1994

Ravel Orchestral Works

The disc starts with the Daphnis Suite, and a cleanly articulated, closely balanced and clearly positioned texture for the opening...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/1992

Stamitz Clarinet Concertos

Mozart heard clarinets at the Elector Carl Theodor's Mannheim, and longed for them to include in his own symphonies in...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1993

Berlioz Les Troyens (pp1947)

This must be one of the most important historical documents ever to appear from previously unavailable archives. Much as we...

Reviewed in issue 9/2001

Best of Grieg

Let me say straight away that this performance of Grieg's Piano Concerto is for many people, including myself, the outstanding...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 8/1993

Mozart Requiem; Sussmayr Requiem

The story that Mozart’s unfinished Requiem was completed after his death by his pupil Franz Xaver Süssmayr (1766-1803) must be...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 9/2005

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