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Butler O Rio & Fixed Doubles

O Rio is an ambitious drawing together of a number of Latin-American influences, colourful and often compelling, but not wholly...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 2/1999

Handel: Duets and Cantatas

These two records, and the CD version of the same music, offer seven of the duets Handel wrote about 1710...

Reviewed in issue 4/1985

Mozart Requiem

This new account of the Requiem bears all the hallmarks of Sir Charles Mackerras’s recent Mozart performances: strong, steady rhythms,...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 7/2003

Delius Hiawatha; Legende; Double Concerto

Composed in 1888 at the tail-end of Delius’s Leipzig sojourn, the tone-poem Hiawatha remained incomplete (the composer having excised two...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2009

Beethoven Orchestral Works

''Everything looked simple, the notes in place, no remarkable tricks, nothing astonishing, the tempi never heard. The interpretation was what...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/1995

Bax Violin Sonatas Nos 1 and 3

A glance at Graham Parlett’s invaluable catalogue of Bax’s music (OUP: 1999) reveals that the first of the composer’s three...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2006

Baroque Feast (A)

At first sight this album‚ with six composers‚ looks like one of those anthologies whose aim is to persuade the...

Reviewed in issue 9/2002

Mozart Divertimenti

I doubt whether we would hear these somewhat trivial works so often as we do if it wasn't for the...

Reviewed in issue 9/1988

Fauré Chansons, Vol. 1

The artists must have debated the matter of presentation, and to good effect. It is always a simple, businesslike and...

Reviewed in issue 5/1993

Contemporary Spanish and Italian Guitar Music, Volume 3

The Spanish works are far removed from any stereotype, risking dourness in Fabula and aridity in Codex I. Monologos is...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 13/1998

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