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Monteverdi L'incoronazione di Popea

Michael Hampe’s austere staging for the 1993 Schwetzingen Festival goes to the heart of the matter. The decor is abstract...

Reviewed in issue 9/2001

Popular Works for Piano & Orchestra

The CD version of this strikes me as a very great improvement, its sound at once closer, clearer and brighter...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 5/1986

Oboe Concertos

Martinu's Concerto is in many ways a frustrating work. He was a brilliant craftsman, and an enterprising one. In the...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1992

Martinu: Orchestral Works

A fascinating selection: two not quite mature pieces from the 1920s, and three completely characteristic utterances from the post-war years....

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 4/1988

Belle Epoque - A Portrait of Gabriel Fauré

Roy Howat’s two-disc tribute to Fauré complements his recent book, The Art of French Piano Music (Yale, 10/09), and includes...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2009

Janácek Chamber & Piano Works

The Concertino and Capriccio are among Janacek's last works, dating from 1925 and 1926, and also among his least compromising...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/1991

Isaac Missa de Apostolis

The Tallis Scholars' latest recording presents a Mass-setting and a handful of carefully-chosen motets by Heinrich Isaac, a composer, as...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 10/1991

Schubert Piano Works

The three works in Naxos's latest issue of Schubert's solo piano music show the remarkable relationship between thematic coherence, formal...

Reviewed in issue 3/1995

Bartók - Works for Violin & Piano

The most striking features of Isabelle Faust’s Gramophone Award-winning first Bartok CD for Harmonia Mundi (3/97) were an empathetic spirit...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 9/2000

Hasse Sacred Works

Giovanni Adolfo Hasse (as the Hamburger came to call himself) went to Italy at the age of about 22. In...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 4/2011

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