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Hildegard of Bingen Ordo Virtutum

Here are two more titles to be added to the growing number of recordings of the music of Hildegard of...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 13/1998

Mozart Violin Sonatas

Virgin are generous indeed in offering Mozart's last three violin sonatas (if we except the Sonatina, K547) on a single...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 4/1991

Dvorák/Smetana String Quartets

Not surprisingly, there are quite a few records coupling these two most popular of Czech string quartets, recent ones among...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/1996

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas

This programme of Beethoven piano sonatas presents an excellent opportunity for Varjon to display his expressive range and fluent keyboard...

Reviewed in issue 3/1996

Bach Mass in B minor

In these days of period-instrument hegemony in the performance of Bach, this ‘old-fashioned’ B minor Mass may be considered an...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

20th Century Piano Sonatas

Berg’s Op 1 (1908) and Hindemith’s Second Sonata (1936) might seem strange bedfellows, especially given Hindemith’s antipathy to atonality, but...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 11/2007

Morales Missa de Beata Virgine & Motets

Thankfully, the generation of composers born c1500 need no longer be described as “lost”: with recordings like this appearing with...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 9/2007

Verdi Don Carlos

This completes Opera Rara’s invaluable issues of first versions of Verdi’s operas, broadcast on Radio 3 in the 1970s. In...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/2006

Rodrigo Orchestral Works, Vol 1

Throughout his life Rodrigo remained focused on the history, culture and topography of his native country; every musical utterance has...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/2002

Beethoven/Wagner Orchestral Works

The idea of Dame Myra Hess being accompanied by Toscanini suggests a fable Aesop never wrote about the butterfly which...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/1998

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