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Marais Suites

The bass viol pieces of Marin Marais seem to be enjoying a new vogue, judging from the flow of recent...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 3/2000

Bach (The) Well-Tempered Clavier

Now in the autumn of his career as a pianist, Vladimir Ashkenazy must have found himself hard-pressed to name anything...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/2006

Mendelssohn Complete works for Violin and Piano

Mendelssohn’s violin sonatas are still surprisingly unfamiliar. The fine work of 1838 was unaccountably unknown until Yehudi Menuhin published an...

Reviewed in issue 13/2001

Elgar The Dream of Gerontius, etc

The great works really are so elusive. In one sense I hope never to hear my ideal Gerontius, because that...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/1993

Glass Music in 12 Parts

Having voted Philip Glass's Music in 12 Parts my record of the 1980s in last December's ''Critics' Choice'', a few...

Reviewed in issue 6/1990

Bach Harpsichord Concertos Transcriptions

Bach’s peerless command of pan-European musical styles and dialects is all the more remarkable for having been acquired entirely on...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 3/2008

Suso in Italia Bella

A quotation from Dante’s Inferno has inspired the title of this recording, setting the scene for its contents: ‘Suso in...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 11/2003

(The) Complete Hildegard von Bingen, Vol. 1

After Gothic Voices, with their Gramophone Award-winning CD that launched the cult of Hildegard (Hyperion, 7/82), after the...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 9/1996

Milhaud: String Quartets

It was Milhaud's declared ambition to compose 18 string quartets, one more than Beethoven, an achievement he had already fulfilled...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 1/1986

Bartók String Quartets

The Lindsay Quartet have played the quartets Bartok quartets successfully for some years now, and these ASV performances first appeared...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 3/1989

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