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Review of Vivaldi Glorias RV588 & RV589

Vivaldi Glorias RV588 & RV589

Rinaldo Alessandrini’s 1997 recording of Vivaldi’s most famous Gloria, RV589 (6/98) was wildly acclaimed in some quarters but the wisdom...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 2/2010

Review of Duruflé Requiem; Messe Cum Jubilo; Poulenc Sacred Choral Works

Duruflé Requiem; Messe Cum Jubilo; Poulenc Sacred Choral Works

The first performance of Duruflé’s Requiem, in Paris just after the Second World War, no doubt owed some of its...

Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 8/2005

Review of Beethoven Symphonies Nos 1 and 7

Beethoven Symphonies Nos 1 and 7

When Günter Wand died last year at the age of 90, after little more than a decade in the musical...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/2003

Review of Elgar (The) Dream of Gerontius

Elgar (The) Dream of Gerontius

Sir Colin Davis has become one of our leading Elgarians, his LSO recordings of the two symphonies generally admired. Now...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/2006

Review of Schoenberg/Zemlinsky Chamber Works

Schoenberg/Zemlinsky Chamber Works

While it is no longer necessary to introduce Zemlinsky as Schoenberg’s brother-in-law and musical mentor, rather than as a composer...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/1997

Review of Handel 6 Sonatas for Violin and Continuo

Handel 6 Sonatas for Violin and Continuo

I found Ryo Terakado's recent recording of Leclair sonatas (11/94) musicainly but marred by suspect intonation. This disc of Handel...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/1994

Review of Hindemith; Schumann Cello Concerto

Hindemith; Schumann Cello Concerto

As he makes his first entry after the opening chords of the Schumann, one is immediately drawn into the exciting...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 4/2004

Review of Romantic Piano Concerto, Volume 15

Romantic Piano Concerto, Volume 15

Massenet finished his Piano Concerto in 1902, when he was 60, so officially in his list of compositions, it comes...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 7/1997

Review of Fuchs Works for Cello and Piano

Fuchs Works for Cello and Piano

On the memorial stone to Robert Fuchs, reproduced in the booklet to this record, his friends and pupils speak of...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/1993

Review of Berkeley, L; Britten Songs

Berkeley, L; Britten Songs

It’s too bad: here I am, glad to see once more available a valued recital disc, and yet almost first...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 10/2003


 

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