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Hadley/Sainton Choral Works

There's a powerful, brooding melancholy pervading every bar of Patrick Hadley's 1931 symphonic ballad, The Trees so High; indeed, the...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/1993

Georges Thill sings French Opera Arias

This seems to be a spin-off from the five-LP Thill issue that was welcomed in November 1985 by JBS, who...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 1/1989

Schoenberg Gurrelieder

Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder has such an implacably dark heart that it’s possible to feel – even in a performance as fine...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 7/2011

Schubert: Works for Violin and Piano

Although these are unquestionably performances of impeccable musicality and taste, I found that Goldberg's tendency to underplay his part at...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 4/1990

Concertos for Trumpet

Finnish trumpeter Jouko Harjanne, the third major young Scandinavian virtuoso of the instrument to have emerged in recent years alongside...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/1996

Alma Brasileira

Too long absent from the studios, Cristina Ortiz returns with a heady brew from what the booklet-note so aptly calls...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2006

Martinu Cello Sonatas Nos 1-3

Although he wrote a good number of works for the cello throughout his career, Martinu’s three numbered sonatas date from...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 13/2008

A. Scarlatti Cantatas, Volume 3

The virtually untapped gold mine of Alessandro Scarlatti's cantatas - there are more than 600, of which only a handful...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/2000

Hume Musicall Humors

Tobias Hume (c1570-1645) was a professional soldier and a ‘gentleman’ (read amateur) composer, and virtuoso of the bass viol. His...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 12/2004

Previn (A) Streetcar Named Desire (DVD)

The success of André Previn’s first opera has been remarkable‚ and I can remember few things like it in the...

Reviewed in issue 13/2001

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