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Weill Vocal & Instrumental Works

The fact that Kurt Weill's posthumous reputation hangs largely upon his music for the stage has diverted attention away from...

Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 12/1991

Stravinsky Orchestral Works

In 1909 Diaghilev heard Stravinsky's early Fireworks at a St Petersburg concert, and immediately marked down the composer in his...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/1991

Handel Messiah

It was this set which, in company with one from Sir Colin Davis issued by Philips a few weeks earlier,...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 12/1989

Martinu Comedy on the Bridge

Not for nothing is this Martinu's most successful opera. Vaclav Klicpera's amusing little plot—about a group of people caught on...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/1985

Vivaldi: Violin Concertos

This is, including a few oddballs, the 39th CD version of Vivaldi's Big Four (the LP count is even higher):...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 12/1988

Brahms (The) String Quintets

Brahms followed Mozart’s lead in adding a second viola to the string quartet line-up for his two string quintets, rather...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2009

Mendelssohn Oedipus-Incidental Music

The year 1845 was a fairly busy one for Mendelssohn. Covent Garden had put on Sophocles's Antigone using the composer's...

Reviewed in issue 1/1995

Music at the Court of St Petersburg, Volume 1

Dominant in St Petersburg musical life in the first years of the nineteenth century was the haunting figure of John...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1997

Bach Hunt Cantata

These two CD reissues have been taken from a seven-volume LP series of Bach’s secular cantatas conducted by Helmuth Rilling...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1996

Vivaldi Concerti e Cantate

This thoughtfully and attractively devised programme by Rinaldo Alessandrini and Concerto Italiano breaks up a sequence of five well contrasted...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1997

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