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Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

When Roger Norrington first recorded this symphony in 1988, his recourse not only to instruments but also to playing techniques...

Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 1/2005

Blah Blah Blah and Other Trifles

Sarah Walker and Roger Vignoles take quite a risk in building an entire recital exclusively of encore pieces. I don't...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1989

Scarlatti 7 Sonatas for flute, violin, viola & bass

In their instrumental music Italian composers of Alessandro Scarlatti’s time concentrated almost exclusively on the violin, which they saw as...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/2000

Fauré Complete Piano Music, Vol 1

While complete sets of Debussy’s and Ravel’s piano works abound, there is a dearth of similarly integral recordings of France’s...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2008

Haydn Seven Last Words (Quartet Version)

I have avoided this music ever since I heard a poor performance, complete with several sermons, as a small boy....

Reviewed in issue 6/1993

Sweelinck (The) Secular Vocal Works

This two-volume set is the second part of a projected “Sweelinck Monument”, which aims to present the famous keyboard composer’s...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 13/2011

Bizet Orchestral Works

One can scarcely speak of Bizet’s ‘youthful’ works, since an abrupt end was put to his genius when he was...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 1/1997

Croft - Harpsichord Music

Written before Croft, at the age of 30, succeeded Blow as organist of Westminster Abbey, several of his Purcellian but...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 9/1999

Schumann Requiems

This is an obvious pairing, as Bernhard Klee demonstrated for EMI when he recorded these Schumann requiems with Dusseldorf forces....

Reviewed in issue 10/1989

Liszt Faust Symphony

Ivan Fischer’s latest Budapest Festival bull’s-eye realizes the full breadth of Liszt’s vision, focusing to near-perfection Faust’s anguish (starting with...

Reviewed in issue 4/1998

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