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Bruckner Symphony 9

Sinopoli’s live Dresden performance of the Ninth Symphony is long-drawn, intent, severely controlled. That was my first, not entirely favourable,...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/1999

Handel Chamber Works

The idea of alternating trio sonatas with cantatas is a happy one, based perhaps on the idea that people play...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 13/1998

Soler Concertos for Two Organs

That Padre Soler wrote these six concertos for Carlos III's son, the Infante Don Gabriel de Borbon, to play with...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 7/1992

Schumann Davidsbündlertänze; Intermezzi, Op 4

Angela Hewitt has picked two of Schumann’s more recalcitrant offspring for her latest recital. While both are suffused with glorious...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2007

Flute Serenade

Like the other CDI/Pickwick CDs I have enjoyed this month (see pages 79 and 131), this concert is impeccably recorded....

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/1990

Medtner Songs

Musical Opinion, reviewing the newly published Op. 52 in 1931, concluded that, ''very accomplished musician'' as he undoubtedly was, Medtner...

Reviewed in issue 12/1995

Dowland Songs

Dowland's three Bookes of Songes (1597, 1600, 1603) and A Pilgrimes Solace (1612) form an unexcelled repository of English lute-song,...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/1988

Rossini Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra; Variations

A triangular flash in the top left­hand corner of the cover of this CD carries the somewhat brazen statement ‘Rossini’s...

Reviewed in issue 10/2002

A Musicall Dreame

Robert Jones's Fourth Booke of Ayres of 1609 is headed ''A Musicall Dreame'', and this is the title for the...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 12/1990

Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream

This recording makes an unusual migration from EMI's Eminence label to the slightly cheaper CfP series. Litton includes the linking...

Reviewed in issue 9/1992

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