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Pergolesi Salve Regina; Stabat Mater

Pergolesi composed his Stabat mater in 1735 during his final illness. It was created to supplant Alessandro Scarlatti’s setting, performed...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 3/2006

Beethoven Piano Sonatas

Comfortable tempi, astutely highlighted inner voices and well-articulated fingerwork distinguish Olga Rusina’s account of Beethoven’s Op 10 No 3 Sonata,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2010

(The) Griller Quartet play Arthur Bliss

Anyone who wisely invested in the Maggini Quartet's terrific Naxos recordings of these two Bliss masterworks (9/02; 12/04) should waste...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 5/2008

Gerber Orchestral Works

This is the American composer Steven R Gerber, not the Swiss, Rene Gerber. Now in his early fifties he’s fortunate...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 12/2000

Simon Bainbridge Orchestral Works

Simply because he has not kept up a flow of major works since his first large-scale success, the Viola Concerto,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 5/1991

Victoria de los Angeles – Recital

When Victoria de los Angeles appeared at the Edinburgh Festival in 1957, she was in her prime, the voice as...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/2003

Miaskovsky String Quartets Nos 1 and 4

Outside Russia, Miaskovsky is probably best known, and then only by repute, as the composer of a long series of...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1996

From the Official Barcelona Games Ceremony

Anyone who had the pleasure (?) of seeing the stars on parade miming to their own performances at the inception...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1992

Weinberg Works for Violin & Piano Vol.1

Politically, personally and stylistically, no composer was closer to Dmitri Shostakovich than Mieczysπaw Weinberg (or Moisey Vainberg as we used...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 3/2010

Rebel Complete Trio Sonatas

Lully’s gifted pupil, Jean-Fery Rebel is chiefly remembered nowadays, for Les elemens, his entertaining symphonie de danse, with its strikingly...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1998

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