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Rouse & Tan Dun Guitar Concertos

These two concertos will come as a shock to anyone who believes that guitar music is about Spanishry and tunes...

Reviewed in issue 5/2001

Liszt Piano Works, Vol.15

Surely few creative musicians have ever opened their hearts more widely to the outside world—its natural beauty, its art and...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1992

Buxtehude Sacred Cantatas

With more than 120 sacred cantatas to his name, Buxtehude looks like a composer ripe for exploration, and sure enough...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2004

Vivaldi Armida al campo d'Egitto

Lovers of 18th-century opera might be familiar with the tale of the crusader Rinaldo distracted from his duty by his...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 13/2010

Coleridge-Taylor (4) African Dances; Nonet; Quintet

“You’ve done it, m’bhoy,” exclaimed Stanford upon viewing the manuscript of the 1895 Clarinet Quintet by his 19-year-old pupil Samuel...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 1/2007

Crusell Clarinet Quartet Op 4; Mozart Clarinet Quintet K581

Here are two attractive new performances of Mozart's Quintet to join a list from which three of the most distinguished...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 7/1987

Clementi Fortepiano Sonatas

This is the fifth disc of Clementi piano sonatas to come from Naxos, and the second volume of “early sonatas”,...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 1/2008

Carmen - arias

Though Pecková has star-billing, this is one of those once-familiar ‘Nights at the Opera’ programmes where three or four singers...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/2002

Brahms Symphonies

I cannot remember hearing the Brahms symphonies played with such refinement and finesse as here. Ozawa's achievement in building a...

Reviewed in issue 10/1993

Dvorák Symphony No 9; Martinu Symphony No 2

Having the most popular of Dvorák’s symphonies coupled with one of the most approachable by a 20th-century Czech composer is...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2005

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