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Weinberg String Quartets Nos 7, 11 & 13

While Shostakovich’s symphonies and quartets stare Janus-like from his core output, the former encapsulating his public utterances, the latter his...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 2/2009

Marenzio Baci, soavi e cari

As part of Musica Oscura's inaugural series, ''The Monteverdi Circle'', Anthony Rooley has chosen two masters of the late Renaissance...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 1/1994

Rameau Nouvelles Suites de Pièces de Clavecin

For his disc of the Nouvelles suites, the second of Rameau’s two major books of harpsichord pieces from the 1720s,...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 4/2010

Prokofiev: Orchestral works

The two symphonies appeared together on one LP, while the Lieutenant Kije suite appeared in harness with the Sixth Symphony...

Reviewed in issue 2/1988

Campra Motets

The most productive years of Campra's life spanned the period between Lully's death in 1687 and the performance of Rameau's...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1986

Donizetti Anna Bolena

Writing of Anna Bolena in The Musical Times (April 1971), Winton Dean recalled catching at Glyndebourne “the sound of surreptitious...

Reviewed in issue 13/1997

Buxtehude Abendmusik

None of Buxtehude's surviving music is known to have been performed at one of Lubeck's famous Abendmusiken but we can...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 2/1995

Mahler Rückert Lieder/Wagner Wesendonck Lieder

The two vocal works are new to this country though they were recorded as long ago as 1979. Goodness knows...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1996

Ligeti String Quartets Nos 1 and 2

These are as accomplished readings as any of the Ardittis’ in this repertoire, more sensitive to the impish humour and...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 2/2006

Joanna Macgregor - Perilous Night

This package announces Joanna MacGregor’s discovery of Cage; sets up her own record label; and brings together a heady mix...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 3/1999

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