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Vivaldia Gloria, RV588; Gloria, RV589

When I reviewed the original LP release of these performances of Vivaldi's two settings of the Gloria I remarked on...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1983

Richter from the Archives - Chopin

Here is Richter ‘from the archives’ in 1950, aged 35, offering invaluable evidence of his early astounding range and mastery,...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/2003

Stravinsky in Moscow 1962

I could write at length on the historic nature of Stravinsky’s return to the land of his birth but the...

Reviewed in issue 2/1997

Maxwell Davies Le Jongleur de Notre Dame; String Quartet

Le jongleur de Notre Dame is a Maxwell Davies equivalent of one of Britten’s church parables, with the difference that...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/1998

Schoenberg Orchestral Works

After his recent recordings of Debussy and Stravinsky in Cleveland (DG, 8/92), Pierre Boulez has moved on to Chicago for...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/1993

Great Cathedral Anthems, Vol. 8

If there are some in addition to myself to whom the choir of Edinburgh’s Episcopal Cathedral are introducing themselves in...

Reviewed in issue 10/1997

Bach Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas

Alina Ibragimova’s previous recordings for Hyperion have been of 20th-century music – impressive accounts of Szymanowski, Roslavets and Hartmann. Her...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 11/2009

Debussy; Enescu; Ravel Works for Violin and Piano

The haunting cover image of a gypsy child peering from the back of a rickety horse-drawn cart is significant. The...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2005

Bach Mass in B minor, BWV232

There is something of the library recording about this, each movement set down in its place very professionally and undemonstrably,...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 5/2005

Pärt; Sierra; Vivaldi Works for Guitar and Orchestra

In an episode from Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier’s novel Concierto Barroco, Handel, Vivaldi and a Cuban slave jam during carnevale...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 2/2006

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