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Vivaldi: Concertos

This was originally the second LP in Vol. eight of Philips's Vivaldi Edition, a brick in that tercentennial edifice. At...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 7/1985

Purcell Divine Hymns

For all that five of the eight performers hail from this sceptr’d isle, Les Arts Florissants meet Purcell and his...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 1/2008

Verdi Requiem; Opera Choruses

It may seem surprising to recommend a Verdi Requiem conducted by Robert Shaw over all those listed above, directed by...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1988

Dvorák Cello Concerto; Ibert Concerto for Cello & Wind Instruments

This 1969 Proms performance of the greatest cello concerto, Dvorák’s, captures Jacqueline du Pré at the thrilling peak of her...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2004

Charpentier Te Deum;Messe de minuit

Perhaps no piece of music evokes more pungently our image of the court of the Sun King, Louis XIV, than...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Kodály String Quartets Nos 1 & 2

These two quartets, the second much shorter and to my ears more rewarding than the first, are the only chamber...

Reviewed in issue 1/1986

Frederick Ashton Ballets

We are realising more and more how key a figure Sir Frederick Ashton was for British ballet. Not just as...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/2005

Eleanor Steber sings Berlioz and Sacred Songs

If it did not involve the unbecoming process known as biting off the nose to spite the face, I would...

Reviewed in issue 3/1997

Holmboe String Quartets, Volume 4

As the Kontra Quartet’s survey of Holmboe’s 20 numbered quartets passes the half-way mark (see 6/94, 7/96 and 12/97 for...

Reviewed in issue 4/1999

Ramey Piano Works

Phillip Ramey (b1939) is an American composer whose music is rooted in Russian late-Romanticism (Scriabin) and anti-Romanticism (Prokofiev). Such formidable...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 13/2007

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