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Monteverdi Vespers of 1610

The Cleveland-based Baroque orchestra Apollo’s Fire has been making CDs for over 10 years now but is currently enjoying a...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 1/2011

Saint-Saëns Cello Concertos Nos 1 & 2; Cello Sonata No 1

Steven Isserlis’s discs for RCA covering virtually all the music Saint-Saëns wrote for cello remain benchmarks but, shrewdly, talented young...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2006

Dohnányi American Rhapsody; Ruralia hungarica; Suite for Orchestra

Good to have Dohnányi delivered in bright, local packaging, though the more luxuriant BBC Philharmonic under Matthias Bamert offer viable...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 4/2006

J. Wilson Songs

No one would describe the mid seventeenth century as a Golden Age for English music. Political turmoil, natural disasters and...

Reviewed in issue 5/1990

Debussy Piano Works, Vol. 3

The great virtue of this third volume in Fergus-Thompson's Debussy series is that it is exclusively devoted to the composer's...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1990

Boccherini Symphonies Opp 37 & 42

In the first three, from his Op. 37, of these later symphonies – they date from 1786-7 – Boccherini’s language...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 4/1997

Scarlatti Sonatas arranged for Guitar

Stephen Marchionda is an Italian-American guitarist living in Barcelona. Like Domenico Scarlatti before him, he is a foreigner living in...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 4/2010

Beethoven Piano Concertos

It is true no doubt that Beethoven had a rumbustious, heavy-handed, unpredictable side to his nature, but they are qualities...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1996

Flute Concertos - Michael Faust

This unusual programme is imaginative and satisfying. Bernstein fans will want it for Halil, currently absent from the catalogue, and...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 12/1994

Daniel Barenboim - (The) Warsaw Recital

Few of Daniel Barenboim’s infrequent past recorded encounters with Chopin hint at the depth, maturity, insight and tonal luster that...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 8/2011

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