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Vivaldi The Four Seasons

There are two ways of approaching a recording of many baroque works: either to play no more than is in...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 1/2000

Schubert Winterreise

Roman Trekel has drastically rethought Winterreise since his Naxos recording (3/00). Gone are the often stultifyingly slow tempi and the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2008

Merkel Complete Organ Sonatas, Volume 3

A little over half of the generous playing time on the CD is devoted to Gustav Merkel’s organ sonatas. The...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 1/1999

Ravel Piano Works, Vol.2

With this disc Anne Queffelec completes her cycle of Ravel's solo piano music and once more suggests both the virtues...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/1994

Handel Coronation Anthems; See the Conqu'ring Hero

The CD version is highly satisfying, with a finely-judged balance of voices and instruments. It would be difficult to improve...

Reviewed in issue 11/1985

Twenty Fanfares for the Common Man

Between 1931 and 1946 Sir Eugene Goossens, then conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, commissioned 19 fanfares—mainly from American composers—12...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/1991

Taneyev At the Reading of a Psalm

The psalm is No 50 in the King James Bible: ‘The mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken’. God appears...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/2004

Bestiario de Cristo

This imaginative recording of 13th-century polyphony is definitely one for your collection, even if you have never encountered this repertory...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 1/2004

R Strauss Guntram

'Influenced by Wagner' is the standard reflex reaction to Strauss's first opera, Guntram, and it's true, of course, nowhere more...

Reviewed in issue 9/1988

Britten Piano Concerto; Debussy Fantaisie

This disc leaves me with an uncomfortable sense of ambivalence. I will lay my cards down from the start: I...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 10/1997

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