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Trumpet Concertos

Rolf Smedvig, born in Seattle, made his debut with that city's Symphony Orchestra at the age of 13, and went...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/1990

Violin Works

Anne Akiko Meyers, of Japanese and American parentage, here convincingly brings together the worlds of French music at its finest...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2003

Mozart Attributed and Spurious Works, Vol 5

A curious, fascinating, if not entirely satisfying disc. Of the two contemporary Mozart arrangements, the recasting (by F. J. Rosinack...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 4/1999

Corelli String Sonatas, Vol.3

The Purcell Quartet's much acclaimed Corelli trio sonata recording project is taking on some of the elements of a saga....

Reviewed in issue 12/1992

Rorem Sun, String Quartet No. 3

After years of neglect by the big record companies, close on the heels of Susan Graham’s recital of Ned Rorem’s...

Reviewed in issue 9/2000

Janet Baker - Lieder by Haydn, Schumann, Schubert, Wolf & R.Strauss

Although recorded on three separate occasions, and with different accompanists, this programme is fairly typical of the recitals that Dame...

Reviewed in issue 11/2000

Verdi Messa da Requiem

When Hans von Bülow described the Requiem as “Verdi’s latest opera, albeit in ecclesiastical garb”’, the ever percipient Brahms declared...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2009

Rosette Anday (1903-1977)

The plum in this pie is Delilah’s first solo, “Printemps qui commence”. If that were extracted, Jack Horner fashion, not...

Reviewed in issue 5/1992

Bach Hunt Cantata,BWV208; Coffee Cantata, BWV211

Hard on the heels of a disciplined, and often suave Phoebus and Pan (No. 201) comes a further volume of...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 2/1998

Karine Babajanyan - Puccini Arias

Here is a soprano, apparently in her youthful prime, gifted with a warmly sympathetic voice and feelings to match; the...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/2009

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