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Donizetti L'Elisir d'Amore

Many readers will know from a glance at the headings roughly what to expect by way of performance and recorded...

Reviewed in issue 10/1991

F. Benda Flute Concertos

This double-album contains the four concertos for flute and strings of Franz Benda. This member of a musical family was...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1987

Brahms Piano Works

From the viewpoint of sound, I'd question the wisdom of asking full price for this 69-minute dip into the five-disc...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1994

Homage to Queen Mary

Roderick Shaw, a Cambridge organ scholar and expatriate, seems to be making a success of marketing Purcell abroad. This is...

Reviewed in issue 6/1990

J C Bach Wind Concertos

Four years ago, I put together some “Composers of the Week” programmes for BBC Radio 3 on Johann Christian Bach...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 1/1997

Parry Complete Organ Works

It’s been fashionable in recent times for record companies to issue ‘Complete Works of … ’ CDs, and this provides...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 12/2000

Llibre Vermell - Pilgrim Songs and Dances

Philip Pickett's second recording of pilgrim songs and dances is a worthy successor to his earlier ''Pilgrimage to Santiago'' (7/92)....

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 12/1992

Lavista Complete String Quartets

Mario Lavista (b1943) is perhaps an unlikely string quartet composer: a sonic pioneer, experimenting with instrumental, orchestral and electroacoustic media...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2011

Liszt Piano Works

Perhaps I should begin with a brief history of these studies. The 15-year-old Liszt's Op. 1 was a set of...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 1/1990

Spanish Guitar Music

In a shoot-out amongst the guitar's fastest guns in the west Lendle would be one of the last to remain...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 7/1992

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