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D Scarlatti Harpsichord Sonatas, Volume 5

The late Scott Ross is still the only harpsichordist to have recorded all the Scarlatti sonatas (for Erato, 6/88), but...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 10/1996

Brahms/Rossini/Tchaikovsky Vocal Works

Another archive treasure mined from the catacombs of Broadcasting House comes blinking into the sunlight. A reminder, on this occasion,...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/1999

For the End of Time

Josefowicz claims that when she first encountered the last movement of Bartok’s First Violin Sonata, she had never heard anything...

Reviewed in issue 7/1998

Nicolai Ghiaurov - Operatic Arias

How they did love him in Vienna! And with good reason. As Ewald Marld recounts in his excellent accompanying essay,...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/2006

Ivanovs Symphonies Nos 8 and 20

Peteris Vasks may be Latvia’s most well-known composer internationally but Janis Ivanovs (1906-83) is the country’s principal symphonist. From 1933...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 5/2004

British Orchestral Works

Bridge's Suite dates from 1910, the same year as Vaughan Williams's Tallis Fantasia, but has never become as popular. As...

Reviewed in issue 10/1988

Liszt Orchestral Works

Imagining the differences between Willi Boskovsky and Antal Dorati (Mercury) in Liszt's Six Hungarian Rhapsodies is a fairly easy task,...

Reviewed in issue 6/1993

Café Fiddle

Fifteen popular violin encores composed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries which, as Dennis D Rooney reminds us...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 1/2010

Sibelius - Orchestral Rarities

There is a danger, with a composer as variable in quality as Sibelius, that a disc of ‘rarities’ will be...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 13/1999

Guerrero Missa Congratulamini mihi

This latest addition to Guerrero’s discography is especially to be welcomed for his fine Mass on a motet by Thomas...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2010

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