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Vivaldi Double and Triple Concertos

The most recent of Il Giardino Armonico's releases brings together six of Vivaldi's concertos for two and three solo string...

Reviewed in issue 8/1995

R.Strauss accompanies Reining,Dermota and Piltti

This is the second instalment of Strauss accompanying his own songs taken from Austrian Radio broadcasts of 1942: I reviewed...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1992

Glass Harpsichord Concerto; Piano Concerto No 2

This is certainly one of the most enjoyable recent releases of Glass’s music. There is something fresh about both works,...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 12/2006

Debussy Piano Works

When Livia Rev recorded Book 1 of Debussy's Preludes for Saga in 1975 (nla) she deservedly found a welcome for...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 1/1991

Fantasies & Impromptus

Lavinia Meijer here offers a delightful sequence of pieces for solo harp by mostly French composers. The harp has long...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2011

Atterberg Symphonies Nos 7 & 8

Atterberg is best known for his genial Sixth Symphony – the Dollar Symphony, so-called as it won a $10,000 prize...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 2/1999

Kittel Arias & Cantatas

Of all the highways and byways trekked by the durable Rene Jacobs in the last 30 years, Caspar Kittel is...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2000

Sculthorpe Orchestral Works

Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe (b. 1929) writes in an appealingly approachable, strongly characterful idiom, yet his music always retains its...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/1995

Shostakovich Chamber Orchestral Works

The dazzling virtuosity displayed on this disc by the Chamber Orchestra of Europe makes me wonder why such a fuss...

Reviewed in issue 8/1992

Rachmaninov Piano concerto 3

Now 71, Jorge Bolet has had time to cultivate self-control. In the heat of excitement he neither surges ahead nor...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 12/1985

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