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Floating City - His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts

This is an ironic title at a time when the Adriatic tides seem to be washing ever more alarmingly over...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 6/1999

Szymanowski Symphony No. 4; Lutoslawski Piano Concerto

It makes good sense to couple Lutoslawski’s most explicitly backward-looking later work with something comparably retrospective by Szymanowski. Even though...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/1997

Moniuszko The Haunted Manor

The plot of The haunted manor is quite breathtakingly daft: it turns very largely upon whether the dwor, the manor...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 1/1987

The Solti Collection

Hard on the heels of huge multi-CD special editions dedicated to Bach, Mozart, Vivaldi, Karajan and Bernstein comes yet another...

Reviewed in issue 5/1991

Reger Piano Trio

The Swiss-based company of Jecklin may be unfamiliar to many readers in Britain. They mainly specialize in repertoire that is...

Reviewed in issue 9/1986

Duphly Harpsichord Works

Duphly's music belongs to the final stage of the French harpsichord school. Between 1744 and 1768 he published four volumes...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1987

Marcello Harpsichord Sonatas, Op. 3

You needn’t reproach yourself for not knowing Marcello’s Op 3. No published copy exists – nor is there any certainty...

Reviewed in issue 10/2001

Shostakovich Symphony No 11,Op 103

For a symphony that might still be said to represent, in RL’s phrase, “a lowering of the symphonic sights”, the...

Reviewed in issue 3/1998

Vivaldi Vespro A San Marco

Numerous recordings of Vivaldi’s church music invent a hypothetical Vespers context. The newest such flight of liturgical fancy conducted by...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 8/2011

Sonatas for Violin and Piano

Isabelle van Keulen’s sense of poetry and warm tone are shown to good advantage in the first of Clara Schumann’s...

Reviewed in issue 5/1999

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