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Anne Sofie von Otter - Home for Christmas

From the earliest days of recording, Christmas songs have featured in the record lists, sung by opera stars aiming for...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 12/1999

Eccles (The) Judgment of Paris; Three Mad Songs

At last we have a recording of John Eccles’s Judgment of Paris, the pastoral masque composed for a competition in...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 6/2009

Gerhard Harpsichord Concerto; Nonet; Piano Conerto

Gerhard’s Harpsichord Concerto has had a decidedly chequered history. The excellent insert-note relates how the player who commissioned it made...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1999

Gieseking First Concerto Recordings, Vol.2

Gieseking the classical stylist in Liszt? In fact his account of Liszt’s First Concerto is one of the most illuminating...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1996

Frank Martin interprets Frank Martin

This well-filled CD assembles the contents of two separately issued LPs. One (reviewed in February 1986) included Martin playing the...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1990

Brahms Lieder

There is so much to admire in this thoughtfully prepared and executed and well-filled disc that I feel churlish in...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1993

Vivaldi The Four Seasons

There now seems to be a new version of Vivaldi's Four Seasons appearing at approximately monthly rather than quarterly intervals....

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/1989

Korngold/Zemlinsky Piano Trios

Goodness, the Korngold Piano Trio is proving a very popular choice for recording artists these days; this arrival brings the...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 6/1994

Handel Organ Concertos

In this CD of highlights from The English Concert's classic 1984 recording of Handel's organ concertos, the deficiencies noted in...

Reviewed in issue 9/1987

Caurroy Requiem Mass & Motets

In a recent roundup of some reissues from the Choir of New College, Oxford on CRD I expressed the hope...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2003

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