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Scarlatti Keyboard Sonatas

The first two things to strike one here are the nobly incisive tone of the 1782 Sodi harpsichord (in the...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1994

Mahler Symphony No 5

Getting Mahler's Fifth Symphony on to a single LP, as Decca have done with Solti's 1970 Chicago recording, is a...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/1985

Mozart: Complete String Quartets

This series of performances dates from between 1966 (when the six quartets Nos. 14-19 dedicated to Haydn were recorded) to...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 8/1987

Malipiero Orchestral Works

If an authority as discriminating and as reluctant to overstate as Luigi Dallapiccola described Malipiero as ''the most important Italian...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1993

Orff Carmina Burana

Among the digitally recorded versions of Orff's cantata, Mata's RCA version is, all in all, the best recommendation, the sound...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1986

Great Violinist from the Dawn of Recording

Despite the age of these recordings, I find I can quickly adjust and listen through the sizzle and swish (reduced...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 4/2004

Chausson; Duparc; Ravel Orchestral Songs

What sort of style really suits Ravel’s Shéhérazade? It has been recorded so often by large voices – heroic sopranos...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 2/2004

Aliotti Sansone (Il)

Bonaventura Aliotti‚ unrepresented in the CD catalogues until now‚ was a Sicilian composer of the middle Baroque‚ born in Palermo...

Reviewed in issue 9/2002

M. Haydn Symphonies; Missa Sancti Francisci Seraphici

It is no longer a secret that Michael Haydn was a talented composer, but an enjoyable new disc of his...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 8/2007

Charivari Agréable - Two upon a Ground

Seventeenth-century English domestic music for solo viols is hard to bring off but Charivari Agreable welcome us into their private...

Reviewed in issue 2/1999

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