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D. Scarlatti Keyboard Sonatas

Scarlatti described his sonatas as ''an ingenious jesting with art'' and Blandine Verlet once said to me, ''You don't play...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 2/1987

Mozart and Haydn: Wind Concertos

These four concertos, played by principals from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, were recorded over a three-year period when session time...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1985

Friedman; Grainger; Murdoch Bach Transcriptions

Volume 3 of Hyperion’s continuing series of Bach transcriptions could hardly be more exhilarating or enterprising. Even when there is...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/2003

Delalande Symphonies pour les Soupers du Roy

I first got to know and love a selection of Delalande's Sinfonies pour les soupers du Roi through recordings issued...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1991

Novák Orchestral Works

Libor Pesek’s latest Slavonic excursion with the RLPO for Virgin Classics will surely win many new friends for the music...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/1997

Gershwin: Orchestral works

Catfish Row, Gershwin's own suite from Porgy and Bess, is the news here. First performend in 1936, this was forgotten...

Reviewed in issue 10/1984

Vivaldi Sacred Music Vol. 7

Volume 6 of this series (A/01) was a Gramophone Award nominee this year and I see no possible reason why...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 13/2001

Dowland Semper Dowland Semper Dolens

All the items in this recording are familiar but the manner of their presentation is not. While it is virtually...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 8/2003

Panufnik Orchestral Works

This well-filled CD of relatively early works by Andrzej Panufnik will be of special interest to anyone curious about what...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/1989

Carter Piano Works

Fifty-five years separate Elliott Carter’s Piano Sonata (1945-46) from the brief Retrouvailles, written in 2000 for Boulez’s 75th birthday. Soon...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/2003

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