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Bach Cantatas, Vol 39

None of the five cantatas on the BIS release extends beyond a quarter of an hour and yet the wealth...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 9/2008

Brahms Piano Concerto No.1

Richard Osborne described this Zimerman/Bernstein account of Brahm's First Concerto as ''narcissistic, so intolerably self-regarding'' although he also found the...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/1986

Veronika Ilinskaya

This unusual programme couples the Scriabin Concerto with solo piano music by Medtner and Prokofiev. Medtner was as scornful as...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/2010

Harper Miracles

Two sides of Edward Harper, now in his mid-sixties, emerge from this disc. In the main and most recent work,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 7/2008

Tansman Symphonies Nos 2 & 3

Symphony-lite was something of a French speciality in the 1920s. And as an adopted Parisian, Polish-born Alexandre Tansman helped to...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2008

Valls/Biber Masses

Gustav Leonhardt has chosen here two works of outstanding originality. From 1696 Fransisco Valls was choirmaster at Barcelona Cathedral, retiring...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1993

Villa-Lobos: String Quartets

Large claims have been made for Villa-Lobos's 17 string quartets. Grove states that they ''show the full extent of his...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 9/1988

Mozart Zaide

Zaide is far too good a work to lie forgotten but is a difficult one to revive. Mozart, seeing no...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/1991

Haydn Symphonies Nos. 94 & 96

Both the symphonies on this record were performed in 1791 during Haydn's stay in London. They are similarly scored for...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1985

Rameau Orchestral Suites

Recordings of Rameau orchestral suites have been appearing for as long as those of the complete operas they are taken...

Reviewed in issue 11/2001

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