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Maxwell Davies Chamber Works

Another advantage of the CD medium: it enables the pairing of works that could never have shared a single LP....

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1991

Bach: Keyboard Concertos

Duration, an often valid criterion of overall value for money (how much music is there on the disc?), may also...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/1990

Chopin Four Ballades

Alessandra Ammara is an Italian pianist who, like many of her compatriots, has won multiple prizes on the competition circuit....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2008

Great Stars of Opera, Vol 3

Not many reputations stand to be enhanced by this. Among those that do is Jerome Hines, whose sonority matched by...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/2004

Bruch & Vieuxtemps: Violin Concertos, etc

As Trevor Harvey pointed out in his original review in 1962, this Heifetz version of the Scottish Fantasy has some...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1988

Fasch St John Passion

Weimar-born Johann Friedrich Fasch was one of the most creative musicians of the forgotten generation that nowadays languish in Bach’s...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 4/2008

Meyerbeer Semiramide

Metastasio’s libretto Semiramide riconosciuta was first set in 1729 by Leonardo Vinci. Thirty other composers had used it by the...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 13/2006

Conti David

Florentine musician Francesco Bartolomeo Conti (1682-1732) was the finest theorbo player in early 18th-century Europe, and spent almost his entire...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2007

Glazunov Symphonies Nos 5 & 7

How one sympathises with Boris Asafyev – the Mr Big of Soviet musicology from the 1920s to the 1940s –...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 13/2004

Locatelli Sonatas, Op. 5

Musica ad Rhenum are making a name for themselves by recording, stylishly and with panache, music of mainstream baroque composers....

Reviewed in issue 7/1996

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