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Alfonso el Sabio Cantigas.

This is a lively performance by a group from northern Italy, who present a selection of compositions from Alfonso el...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 8/1999

Bach St John Passion

When you hear the ominous first chorus of Bach’s St John Passion sung and played like this, liturgical ritual and...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 6/2003

Annette Dasch - Armida Arias

Though he never knew it, Torquato Tasso (1544_95) was one of the most important figures in the history of opera....

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2007

Schumann Piano Works

The special interest here is the F minor Sonata, which after the publisher's removal of its two Scherzos, first reached...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1993

Puccini (La) Bohème

“Ah, golden youth!” exclaims Marcel in the old translation at a rapturous moment in Act 2. Then, if memory serves,...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 6/2008

Wagner Overtures & Preludes

I praised these performances in their LP form for Tennstedt's spaciousness of conception and the concentration of the playing, which...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1985

Chopin Ballades & Fantaisie

Wherever you stand on the 'great Pollini debate', his latest recording surely offers more to his supporters than his detractors....

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 1/2000

Beethoven Songs

''Oh! tell me, Harper, wherefore flow Thy wayward notes of wail and woe?'' Wherefore indeed? Beethoven ephemera, especially when it...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 12/1991

Chopin (The) Concertos

We rarely hear Barenboim play Chopin so here is something fresh. The two concertos hold their place as great works...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 8/2011

Pärt Choral Works

Arvo Pärt evidently never considers a work finished. For those of us who consider his music as perfect as is...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 6/2004

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