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Vivaldi New Discoveries

Naïve’s anthology of “New Discoveries” is supervised by Federico Maria Sardelli, an accomplished recorder-player and also a musicologist at the...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 13/2009

Gibbons Keyboard Works

John Toll recently succumbed to cancer in his early fifties‚ thus depriving the world of a supreme continuo player‚ in...

Reviewed in issue 2/2002

Wuorinen Orchestral & Chamber Works

To my mind, the best of the compositions by the American composer Charles Wuorinen on these discs is the Second...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 7/1993

Vaughan Williams Songs with orchestra

Neither of these song cycles was originally written with orchestral accompaniment. On Wenlock Edge was scored for accompaniment of piano...

Reviewed in issue 9/1984

Riley In C

It would of course be perfectly possible for a suitably instructed computer to perform Terry Riley’s In C on electronic...

Reviewed in issue 7/2002

Beethoven Violin Concerto; Tchaikovsky Sérénade Mélancolique

How shocking that this inspired reading of the Beethoven Violin Concerto, with Menuhin directing his own Festival Orchestra, should have...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2003

Berlioz Orchestral Works

This latest version of Harold in Italy, the most richly recorded yet, not only brings the characterful viola playing of...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/1988

José Carreras - Malinconia d'amore

Recorded in April 2002, this may be of interest as an update on Carreras’s voice and art; and let’s hope...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/2003

Weber: Orchestral Works

The note accompanying this record claims that the Hanover Band ''uses authentic instruments and period principles of interpretation'' and that...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/1989

Prokofiev & Wagner: Orchestral Works

It is good to see the Cello Concerto on CD at last though it is puzzling that a work of...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 7/1993

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