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Bach Intavolatura

We can never know whether Bach intended these works to be played on the lute, nor in practical terms is...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Barenboim - 50 Years on Stage

Daniel Barenboim made his official debut as a concert pianist in Buenos Aires on August 19, 1950, aged seven. Fifty...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 6/2005

Monteverdi (Il) Ritorno di Ulisse in Patria

William Christie has said that, until the right director comes along, he is not interested in mounting ‘period’ productions of...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 6/2004

Bach St John Passion

The genesis of Bach's St John Passion is a complicated one and its subsequent history complex. Several versions exist of...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 5/1991

Furtwängler conducts Wagner

Bassoonists, rejoice! Here are not one but two substantial modern chamber works with meaty parts for your instrument (both are...

Reviewed in issue 10/1999

Messiaen Vingt Regards sur l'enfant-Jesus

Joyce Hatto's CD legacy may be mired in controversy (“the forgeries of jealousy”?) but there is nothing controversial about recordings...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2006

Crosse Orchestral & Vocal Works

Crosse, who achieved prominence with works such as Purgatory, Changes and The Story of Vasco and Ariadne, has suffered unaccountable...

Reviewed by mharry in issue: 13/1999

Clementi Works with Flutes

Those post-1945 Italians we hear about most – Berio, Nono, Maderna – all needed their fix of serial thinking in...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 6/2011

Bach Leipzig Chorales

Chalk and cheese. You would have to go a long way to find two more diametrically opposing views of Bach’s...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 4/2007

Pizzetti Orchestral Works

The pieces on this disc are not played in chronological order: we leap from middle-period Pizzetti to relatively late and...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1999

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