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Beethoven Edition, Vol.19 - Large Choral Works

Subscribers to the whole edition will not need guidance over this, beyond, perhaps, an assurance that it is not in...

Reviewed in issue 13/1997

Germaine Cernay (1900-43)

Cernay was one of those French singers, much more common in the past than today, whom it is hard to...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1991

(The) Earliest Songbook in England

The eight leaves of the Cambridge University Library manuscript Ff. I. 17 are surely not in fact the earliest songbook...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: /2000

Cherubini Overtures

In his useful little book on Cherubini (Oxford: 1965), Basil Deane claims that ''in no other aspect of his work...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/1990

Mozart Piano Concertos 15 & 22

The first thing that struck me in this performance of K450 is the deliberate tempo of the first movement; and...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 11/1987

Beethoven Piano Sonatas

The two sonatas coupled on this recording present a striking contrast between the somewhat carefree lyricism of the A major...

Reviewed in issue 4/1994

Biber/Muffat Sonatas

This is a well-chosen programme of sonatas by Biber and Muffat. Biber is represented by four pieces from his 1676...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1994

Satie Orchestral & Vocal Works

More honoured in the histories of music than in the hearing, Satie's Socrate is truer to his description of it...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 12/1994

Crusell Clarinet Concertos

Bernhard Crusell was regarded as the outstanding clarinet composer/virtuoso of his time (the turn of the 18th century into the...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/2009

Martinuo (The) Complete Music for Violin and Orchestra,Vol 4

Martinu's two violin concertos have very different histories. The First was created for Dushkin in 1931, much tinkered with over...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 13/2008

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