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Keiser The Passion According to St Mark

That Reinhard Keiser, a notable opera composer in Hamburg in an age of stiff competition, seems to have attracted the...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 3/1995

Notes Interdites - Two Films By Bruno Monsaingeon

Don’t be deceived by the packaging or the DVD menu. Here, directed by Bruno Monsaingeon, are two 55-minute documentaries and...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2008

Victoria & Lobo Choral music

Victoria's last publication was his six-voice Requiem Mass for the dowager Empress Maria, in whose service he had been from...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 9/1987

Piano Trios

Next to the incomplete Myaskovsky symphony cycle, the saddest casualty of the demise of Olympia was Mieczyslaw Weinberg, leaving us...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 6/2006

Debbie Wiseman Wilde-film score

“Oscar Wilde was obsessed with beauty and one of my aims was for the score to be beautiful,” comments Debbie...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Johnson, R Lute Solos and Songs

Robert Johnson was lutenist to both James I and Charles I; he was also engaged by The King’s Men to...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 1/2005

Beethoven/Mozart Quintets

With players of this quality and experience, one approaches these two pieces with a degree of confidence which proves justified....

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 12/1994

English Chamber Works

''Bax, A: 14.4 overs, 2 maidens, 6 for 27''—it may not be too fanciful to find some such memory enshrined...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1983

Furtwängler Symphony No 2

It was during the Second World War that Furtwangler began work on his second—and without doubt, finest—symphony. It is a...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/1995

Piano Trios

The performers here are new to me, but this ensemble of three Berlin musicians led by the First Concertmaster of...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1988

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