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Review of Blavet Flute Sonatas

Blavet Flute Sonatas

Michel Blavet was the most celebrated French flautist during the first half of the eighteenth century. A younger contemporary of...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1992

Review of Bach Goldberg Variations

Bach Goldberg Variations

Bach’s Goldberg Variations appear to be a calling card for Simone Dinnerstein. Her interpretation is serious-minded and earnest in intent....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 13/2007

Review of Copland Orchestral Works

Copland Orchestral Works

It is characteristically enterprising of Etcetera to rescue these Freneh Radio recordings, taken live in 1971, and thus fill gaps...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 6/1991

Review of Morales Requiem

Morales Requiem

The latest CD from the Gabrieli Consort offers a reconstruction of a Requiem Mass as might have been held in...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 6/1998

Review of Honegger Symphonies

Honegger Symphonies

Honegger's five symphonies are all available on CD in well recorded performances from Erato by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 6/1988

Review of Wolf Lieder

Wolf Lieder

Discs of Hugo Wolf's songs have never been candidates for the bestseller list. That is not surprising. They do not...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1992

Review of Italian Concerto The Harp Consort

Italian Concerto The Harp Consort

This is a celebration of two things: the Italian influence on baroque music elsewhere in Europe (as the ‘motivator’ is...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 4/1998

Review of Schubert Chamber Works

Schubert Chamber Works

Two bargain Trouts and the sound of the mid-1960s analogue Vanguard version is much preferable to the clear and slightly...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/1990

Review of R. Strauss Friedenstag

R. Strauss Friedenstag

With the possible exception of Guntram (his first opera), the one-act Friedenstag is the least known of Strauss's operas and...

Reviewed in issue 1/1992

Review of Kreisler/McCormack Duets

Kreisler/McCormack Duets

At the period when all but one of the recordings on the EMI disc were made, McCorrnack had become one...

Reviewed in issue 9/1989


 

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Reinvented almost 60 years since the introduction of the original, this preamp/power amp combination...

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