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Blavet Flute Sonatas

The music of Michel Blavet, a younger contemporary of Leclair and Rameau, has received scant attention by recording companies, so...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1986

Oh Merry Melancholy

The German lutenist Joachim Held has since 1996 been engaged in recording a survey of Renaissance and Baroque solo repertoire....

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 13/2010

Brahms Piano Works

Some 40 years separate the intimately personal miniatures opening this disc from the F sharp minor Sonata with which Ax...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1996

MacMillan Seven Last Words from the Cross; Cantos Sagrados

One of the first successes on RCA's Catalyst label was James MacMillan's percussion concerto for Evelyn Glennie, Veni, veni Emmanuel...

Reviewed in issue 5/1995

Scelsi Chamber Works

Like such modern masters as Tippett, Carter and Messiaen, all born in the early years of this century, Giacinto Scelsi...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/1990

Mussorgsky Songs

There is very little to praise in this unfortunate issue. Safiulin, a name new to me, has a grey, opaque...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1996

Ave Verum - The Soul Ascends

The sprightly tempo and clean semiquavers of the famous Vivaldi Gloria give instant reassurance just where it is needed. The...

Reviewed in issue 7/1998

Veress Piano Works

Initial impressions are misleading: a comfortably crescendoing string chord followed by simple keyboard chiming, a bit like a fragment from...

Reviewed in issue 11/1998

Schubert Cello and Piano Works

Back in 1996 Wispelwey and Giacometti recorded transcriptions of Schubert’s three “little” violin sonatas (D384, 385, 408). I remember not...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 4/2010

Constant Lambert conducts

This is a delicious record. I have long hoped that EMI would reissue and combine Lambert's two separate recordings of...

Reviewed in issue 10/1988

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