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Music of Cyprus 1413-1422

Once one has called to mind the fact that, in spite of the fragment of an ikon of the Archangel...

Reviewed in issue 4/1993

Mozart Don Giovanni

This set has to be listened to with the ear of faith, but that faith will be amply rewarded. Here...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1990

Concertos arranged for Trumpet

As this curious collection of transcribed string concertos confirms, Nakariakov is fast becoming the Volodos of the trumpet; however natural...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 7/1999

Mozart Piano Concertos Nos 23 & 27

When these recordings first appeared (differently coupled: K488 with K467 in C, K595 with K271 in E flat) it was...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 5/1985

Le Flem Orchestral Works

The French composer and music critic, Paul Le Flem, died in 1984 at the amazing age of 103, and although...

Reviewed in issue 12/1994

Ireland/Vaughan Williams Works for Strings

John Farrer and the English Sinfonia turn in a sturdy, spick-and-span account of Ireland’s Concertino pastorale, enjoyable in its straightforward...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/1997

R. Strauss: Vocal works

It is good to have these Soderstrom performances on a budget-price label. The record companies showed poor judgement in not...

Reviewed in issue 8/1986

Verdi I vespri siciliani

This is the most exciting new set of a Verdi opera for a very long time. It is justification, if...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1991

Peace in our Time - Music of Peace and War

An imaginative and varied sequence, eloquently realized by one and all. Twenty-two-year-old St Paul’s Cathedral Organ Scholar Benjamin Nicholas gives...

Reviewed in issue 3/1999

Finzi, A Inni alla Notte; (Il) Salmo; Stravinsky Firebird Suite

No, not Gerald, but Aldo Finzi (1897-1945), a Milanese composer who had studied at Rome’s Santa Cecilia Conservatoire and enjoyed...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/2004

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