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Benda Romeo und Julie

Three of Georg Benda’s melodramas have come out on CD in recent years, but this seems to be the first...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 1/1999

(The) Golden Age of Light Music - Light Music While You Work

CD series have a habit of starting brightly and soon fading. That the Guild Light Music series is on the...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 3/2007

Nigel North Lute Recital

If you aren't a 'lute person' and may have wondered why so much fuss is made of Weiss, a friend...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 12/1992

Rossini Album Francais

This is a very collectable CD. In the first place, it gives us not some arbitrary and ill-matched selection from...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/1993

Crystal Tears

This disc grows on me. Inevitably, Andreas Scholl gets the headline treatment, though the man himself seems very much a...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 9/2008

Liszt: Piano Works

This is an expansion of the five-LP boxed set (6725 013) which I reviewed last November. What Philips have done...

Reviewed in issue 7/1983

Lucifer - New Pieces for Brass Ensemble & Piano

Nobody who has heard Xenakis’s Eonta for brass and piano will forget the patina-like figuration of that seminal work which...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 1/2006

Schumann Duets

This is a model of a mid-price reissue – interesting, neglected material performed to perfection with texts and translations provided....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1999

Bacewicz; Zarebski Piano Quintets

Juliusz Zarebski (1854-85) was a renowned pianist and composer, garnering high praise from Liszt (who took him as a pupil)...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 13/2006

Boccherini Stabat Mater

Boccherini’s few surviving vocal works have received little attention on disc. His attractive Stabat mater for solo soprano, two violins,...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 9/2006

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