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Giroust Sacred Choral Works

Francois Giroust was a French contemporary of Haydn who enjoyed considerable success as a composer of sacred music. In 1756,...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1991

Lars Vogt Piano Recital

I will not be the only person who remembers Lars Vogt as the fresh-faced and musicianly artist who came second...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 5/1992

Chopin Piano Works

Since recording much Mozart, Chopin and Schumann for Erato, Maria-Joao Pires has become a different and very great pianist. Here,...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/1994

Duetti da Camera

Thirteen years on, this rewarding selection of seventeenth-century Italian songs still sounds as fresh and appealing as when it was...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 8/1994

Scarlatti Keyboard Sonatas

Musical scholars like Ralph Kirkpatrick, whose classic book on Scarlatti is here quoted at length (though without acknowledging the source),...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 2/1992

Couperin (3) Leçons de Ténèbres; Lalande Psalm 50

This isn’t quite the usual season for leçons de ténèbres, but here we have two versions of Couperin’s surviving settings,...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 13/2003

R. Strauss (Die) Frau ohne Schatten

This was the last work Karajan conducted and produced during his controversial seven-year period in charge of the State Opera....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1998

Elgar Great is the Lord; They are at rest

This is a fine disc but it is up against a still finer one. The Choir of St John’s College,...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 4/2007

Franck Piano Works

Though described as ''the senior Canadian-born pianist concertizing nationally and internationally on a regular basis'', Robert Silverman had not come...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1994

Strauss, R (Der) Rosenkavalier

This live performance was recorded at the Salzburg Festival in 2004. The production by Robert Carsen, updated to the period...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 9/2010

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