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Italian Concerti Grossi

Capella Istropolitana is a chamber orchestra—here strings only, whose Naxos recordings already occupy considerable column-length in The Gramophone Classical Catalogue,...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 3/1995

Howells Choral & Organ Works, Vol 1

In the final grand summation I suppose Howells ranks as a minor composer, but he shares several qualities with the...

Reviewed in issue 3/1990

Verdi Ernani

“That ultra-classical product of Romanticism, the grandiose Italian opera in which the executive art consists in a splendid display of...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 6/2007

Arnold Overtures

Concerts are notoriously short these days, too often with only a pair of works and seldom an overture. I notice...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/2005

Loewe Lieder & Balladen, Vol 12

Dominating this 12th volume of an uneven but very rewarding series are two groups of songs. Loewe's Heine Liederkreis of...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1999

Gay: The Beggar's Opera

The musical content of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera has always been a movable feast, and in their 1981 version...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 5/1991

Tchaikovsky Symphonies and Orchestral Works

Here is another of those extraordinary Virgin bargain boxes, offered at an astonishingly low price (six well-filled CDs for well...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Brahms Symphony 4; Hungarian Dances

This is the first recording made by the Saito Kinen Orchestra, which was formed six years ago in memory of...

Reviewed in issue 10/1990

Portes Ouvertes - (The) 20th Century Cello, Vol 3

Matt Haimovitz’s latest recital of twentieth-century cello compositions sustains the thesis of its predecessors (12/95 and 5/97) that extreme contrast,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 5/1999

Bach Goldberg Variations

There used to be a problem with the Goldberg Variations: to observe the repeats was impossible on a single LP...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 3/1990

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