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Verdi (La) Traviata

This Traviata is another and welcome addition to the excellent performances of Aida and Falstaff (TDK, 2/02 and 1/03) from...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/2003

Boccherini Stabat Mater; D'Astorga Stabat Mater

These settings of the same text by two Italian composers (more exactly, Sicilian in the case of Astorga) who spent...

Reviewed in issue 10/1999

Handel Flute Sonatas

Thanks to the many uncertainties, transcriptions and overlappings of Handel's chamber music output, definitions of 'Handel's Recorder Sonatas' tend to...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 2/2000

Dvořák Symphony No 8 – Maazel

In reviewing the original LP issue, IM noted the brilliantly lit recording which added to the immediate excitement of the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1985

On Wenlock Edge

Ainsley, Gilchrist, Bostridge, Padmore and (a little earlier) Tear, Partridge, Langridge, Hill, Rolfe Johnson back to Lewis and Pears: to...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/2007

Ravel (The) Complete Solo Piano Works

Offering some acute and warm-hearted after-thoughts, Steven Osborne complements Roger Nichols’s accompanying essay, confessing to a lifelong love of Ravel....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/2011

Bach Piano Works

While there are quite a few recommendable harpsichord recordings in the current catalogue of the complete Partitas, no piano version...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 6/1997

Virtuoso Recorder Music

Many recorder consorts suffer from imbalance, dubious intonation, and a tendency for the pitch of sustained notes to sag, with...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 8/1986

Tavener Liturgy of St John Chrysostom

These cassettes, models of the better kind of experimentation in contemporary church music, are a refreshing antidote to the sort...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 12/1989

Peñalosa Complete Motets

Francisco de Penalosa counts for many people as the Spanish Josquin: he was a bit younger than Josquin, and he...

Reviewed in issue 7/1992

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