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Bartolomeo Cristofori

Bartolomeo Cristofori’s invention of the escapement action brought a wide and continuously variable dynamic range to the stringed keyboard. Only...

Reviewed in issue 8/2002

Mahler Complete Symphonies

Listening to these ten Compact Discs from DG, I have been surprised to find that I have increasingly warmed to...

Reviewed in issue 5/1990

Philidor Tom Jones

Henry Fielding’s novel Tom Jones was published in 1749, at around the time Francois-André Philidor was living in London, making...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2006

Payne (The) Stones and Lonely Places Sing

Anthony Payne's musical response to English pastoral is wide-ranging, welcoming challenges and shunning easy options. This programme, with two vocal...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/2007

Baroque Classics

This is a sampler of baroque favourites, mostly theatre and church music, not translated into present-day sonorities but played with...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 12/1988

Prokofiev Orchestral Works

This is a welcome appendix to the much (and rightly) acclaimed cycle of Prokofiev symphonies that Neeme Jarvi and the...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 1/1987

The Caruso Edition, Vol.2 1908-12

This second volume contains much of the best of Caruso. It begins with the enchanting Lolita the tone rich but...

Reviewed in issue 3/1991

Bach Cello Suites 1-6

This new batch of EMI Double Fortes (two discs offered for the price of one) again demonstrates the depth of...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/2001

Handel/Telemann Oboe Sonatas

It was a good idea to assemble a programme of oboe sonatas by the two composers who, perhaps wrote for...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1989

Erb Evensong & Solstice

While Erb sometimes stretches the substance of his music too thinly, there’s no denying its dynamism; heard to pungent effect...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 8/1998

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