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Julian Bream plays Dowland and Bach

When, in 1950, a teenage Julian Bream happened upon Peter Warlock’s piano arrangements of some of John Dowland’s lute pieces,...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 10/2008

Handel Arias

Until making this recording Rolando Villazón had sung “barely a note of Handel in public”. There will be some who...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 5/2009

Donizetti Maria Stuarda

“What place is this?” asks Queen Elizabeth, badly briefed on her arrival at Fotheringay. It’s a question we may have...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 6/2009

Glazunov Orchestral Works, Vol. 6

Though I couldn’t say I’d necessarily want to hear it again, the Carnaval Overture of 1892 comprises a perky, agreeable...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 4/1998

Bach, JC Salve Regina

Johann Christian Bach is well represented on record these days‚ but for those readers already familiar with the music of...

Reviewed in issue 1/2002

Strauss, R (The) Complete Songs Vol. 4

With one possible exception, these are all among Strauss’s more rarely performed songs, and quite undeservedly so. Most are highly...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 6/2010

Bach Keyboard Works

I am beginning to lose count of the number of discs that have come my way this year which focus...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 12/1992

Purcell Complete Odes & Welcome Songs, Vol.1

The King's Consort are known for their very workmanlike performances: the right singers and players in the right proportions, clearly...

Reviewed in issue 2/1989

Claudio Arrau - 100th Anniversary Collection

Of the three great pianists born in 1903 – Arrau, Serkin and Horowitz – Horowitz was almost certainly the most...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/2003

Verdi La forza del destino

It was ever thus: the more or less simultaneous release of two recordings of distinction in a limited field. In...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/1987

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