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Trumpet Renaissance

Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s Endless Parade is one of the more substantial celebrations of trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger’s virtuosity. Hardenberger’s own 1990...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/2010

Works by Le Jeune

Claude Le Jeune (1530-1600) makes his own first appearance on CD, and joins only a very few other CD examples...

Reviewed in issue 3/1987

Hindemith: Orchestral Works

This is the finest version of the Konzertmusik to have appeared on disc. Bernstein may be more massig (moderate) than...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/1991

Mendelssohn Complete Organ Works, Vol 1

In all Jennifer Bate’s wide-ranging discography, I most admire the recordings of British organ music in which she has taken...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 7/2005

Rachmaninov Piano Works

Oxana Yablonskaya (Russian-born but American-based) offers a richly comprehensive selection of Rachmaninov's music, taking us through fiery intricacy, veiled melancholy...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/1994

Bortnyansky Sacred Concertos, Volume 6

The Russian State Symphonic Cappella under the energetic direction of Polyansky continue their traversal of Bortnyansky’s monumental production of sacred...

Reviewed in issue 10/2002

Cilea Adriana Lecouvreur

Issued previously on Laserdisc in 2000, this now reappears on DVD in the Opus Arte Scala Collection, in which it...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/2005

Maw; Hoddinott; Searle Horn Concertos

This is a fascinating anthology comprising four vintage Argo/Decca offerings made between 1970 and 1974. All were originally sponsored by...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 13/2008

Boccherini Cello Quintets

Boccherini’s Op 42 – these are the ‘opuses’ he classified himself, not the different numbers used by his publishers –...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 11/2003

Couperin Pieces de violes

Couperin’s two suites for bass viol and continuo from 1728 contain some of the finest music written for them. They...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 3/2008

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