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R. Strauss/Headington Violin Concertos

ASV are to be congratulated for this far-sighted release of the violin concertos of Richard Strauss and Christopher Headington. If,...

Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 12/1991

Works from the Reign of King James I

Musically speaking, the reign of King James I was almost as glorious as that of “that bright Occidental Star, Queen...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 4/2011

Music of the Gothic Era

''Music Of The Gothic Era'' was the last and arguably the most successful of David Munrow's boxed sets of pre-baroque...

Reviewed in issue 8/1985

Albeniz Evocación

Antonio de Torres (1817-92) was the god who created the classical guitar as we know it today, and the composer,...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 13/2010

Brahms String Quartet No 1; Piano Quintet

Brahms, lean yet muscular. Not a gram of fat thickens the textures. The violins are a touch slender, the acoustic...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 5/2009

Handel Complete Recorder Sonatas

These are very lively and musically intelligent performances of the Handel recorder sonatas. All six are given: the four from...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/1996

Bach Cantatas

The Bach Guild would seem to have drawn its early initiative from the Archiv Division of DG which had been...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1993

Chanticleer - Sound in Spirit

Some of the titles and instruments used here (Tibetan singing bowls, bird calls, finger cymbals, rainsticks) conjured up visions of...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 11/2005

Gulda plays Chopin

Here in all his glory is Friedrich Gulda the ultimate maverick pianist, a man who declared classical music dead and...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2010

Mercadante Maria Stuarda, regina di Scozia

Mercadante, we remember (or not), had time out in Spain, returning to the operatic scene in 1832 with formidable mastery...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 6/2007

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