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Giardini and Mozart Violin Concertos

An interesting coupling: Giardini was primarily a violinist who excited Mozart's admiration as such, Mozart was primarily a composer who...

Reviewed in issue 9/1986

Purcell O Solitude - Songs and Airs

No doubt we will soon be made to realize the extent of Purcell's secular vocal achievements in the tercentenary celebrations...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 6/1994

Wolff Bread and Roses

‘Dependency and ‘Freedom’ – watchwords central to music-making of the kind that Christian Wolff envisages in For 1, 2 or...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 3/2004

Mudarra Libros De Musica En Cifras Para Vihuela

The 11 extant books of music for the vihuela span, with one exception, a period of only 42 years and...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 7/1992

Caldara Sinfonie a Quattro

Antonio Caldara is best known as a composer of vocal music whose recent reputation was considerably enhanced by René Jacobs’s...

Reviewed in issue 2/2002

Mozart & Schumann: Chamber Works

Some things have inevitably changed since these recordings were first issued: The English Concert now plays with rather more freedom,...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 9/1986

Schubert Winterreise

Peter Harvey is a baritone whose name has become familiar over the last few years, mostly in association with Bach...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/2011

Elgar Orchestral Works

First let me say the obvious; that it is important in repertoire like this for the recording to be suitably...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1991

Debussy La Mer; Elgar Enigma Variations

Were the cartoonist Pont alive, I would submit myself as a possible subject: 'The man who wasn't convinced by Toscanini's...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1989

Franck Organ Works Vol. III

Curiously, it is the quieter pieces which come off best. Although the very lively acoustic enhances glitter and majesty to...

Reviewed in issue 5/1985

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