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Herschel Symphonies

Not many people know that the great astronomer who discovered Uranus was also a composer. William Herschel, born in Germany...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 6/2003

Vivaldi Nisi Dominus

Since his last Vivaldi disc Scholl has changed record companies, although this new disc conveys the sense of continuity in...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2000

Schubert Piano Duet Works

Schubert’s love of piano duets was “always a place of exchange and dialogue, a symbol of fraternal communion within the...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/2010

Cliffe Symphony No 1; Orchestral picture: Cloud and Sunshine

Frederic Cliffe (of whom, I confess, I had never heard until now) was born in Bradford in 1857, a few...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/2004

Nielsen, L String Quartet Nos 2 and 3

It would be hard to think of two contemporaries less alike, but Ludolf Nielsen shares more in common with Havergal...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 5/2003

French Chamber Works

This disc contains six works recorded at the 2003 Heimbach Festival. No doubt it will appeal to those who attended...

Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 13/2004

Liszt Piano Works

Who said anticipation was better than realisation? In the Bach-Liszt, Polina Leschenko sets off at a blistering pace and leggiero,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2007

Handel Keyboard Suites, Vol. 1

Even by Sviatoslav Richter’s Tours Festival standards 1979 was a red-letter year. Then, partnered by his dazzling young compatriot Andrei...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/1996

Verdi (Le) Trouvère

This is an important historic document, a recording of the first modern performance, given at Martina Franca in the summer...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1999

Purcell Dido and Aeneas

Herve Niquet’s sensitive understanding of French baroque music – I think immediately of his colourful reading of Rameau’s Pygmalion (Virgin...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

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