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Berlioz Cantates du Prix de Rome

Musical competition juries have frequently – and not always without cause – been accused of bias, skulduggery or incompetence; but...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 9/1996

Bach Motets

Since Rene Jacobs’s recent account of Bach’s six motets, there has also been a new version from the Scholars Baroque...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/1997

Scarlatti Keyboard Sonatas

Occasionally—very occasionally—a record appears that is so exactly right in every particular that a reviewer just sits back and gives...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 9/1987

Rozsa Violin Concerto etc

The Violin Concerto is probably Rozsa’s most celebrated concert work and its impassioned romanticism remains wonderfully enthralling. Written for Jascha...

Reviewed by rseeley in issue: 7/1997

Bach Cantatas

Over a period of some 15 years or so, between 1960 and 1974, Fritz Werner recorded nearly 60 of Bach's...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1990

Lindberg - (The) Baroque Trombone

Christian Lindberg tells us that he bought his sackbut (the “Baroque trombone” of this CD’s title) 30 years ago but...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 2/2010

Beethoven Symphony 9

Nowadays, I suspect, it would be impossible to revive the debate about the efficacy or otherwise of ‘live recording’. Even...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/1997

Contemporary works for string quartet

This record blows further dust off a hallowed and time-honoured medium. Unlike most other European string quartets, the Balanescu Quartet...

Reviewed in issue 3/1993

Verdi (La) Forza del Destino

Why is it that this performance in low­fi and indifferent black­and­white picture‚ and in a distinctly old­fashioned staging‚ has become...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/2002

Fauré Requiem

Time was when you asked yourself just two questions before buying FaurÈ’s Requiem: Is the performance any good? and What’s...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 10/2011

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