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Fauré Choral Works

La naissance de Venus, the ‘scene mythologique’ that gives this CD its title, was composed by Faure for an amateur...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 2/1999

Alkan Chamber Music

The question ''Alkan, who was Alkan?'' (which Ronald Smith used to preface his indispensable two-volume study of the composer—London: 1976)...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/1993

Pergolesi; Scarlatti, A Stabat Mater

Alessandro Scarlatti’s Stabat mater was commissioned by a confraternity of aristocrats, the Cavalieri della Vergine dei Dolori, for its annual...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 2/2008

Mozart Divertimenti

This is Vol. 1 of a projected series of Mozart serenades and divertimentos with this chamber group drawn from the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1987

Works for two pianos and four hands

The only rival account of the Sonata is from Janka and Jurg Wyttenbach and two excellent Swiss percussion players (Accord)...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 1/1987

Bach Cantatas BWV78, 99 & 114

The silver jubilee volume of this dignified procession through Bach’s sacred cantatas is marked by one of the composer’s greatest...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/2004

Great Pianists of the 20th Century - John Ogdon, Volume 1

This is in some ways a curious compilation, though certainly not an unrepresentative or an unenterprising one. Pride of place...

Reviewed in issue 4/1999

Mendelssohn Cello Sonatas Nos 1 and 2

How fast is a Mendelssohnian Andante? In the Song Without Words, Jan Vogler and Louis Lortie choose an easily flowing...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 8/2003

Mozart String Quartets Nos 14 & 15

We live in interesting times as regards the performance of classical music. Period players have had a wide influence but...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 12/2005

Stravinsky Orchestral Works

On the evidence of his recent Prokofiev disc (Chandos, 5/92) and now this, Kitaienko's penchant is for the moody, slow-burn,...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 9/1992

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