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Dowland Complete Lute Works, Vol. 5

Given the odd transmission of John Dowland’s lute music, any ‘complete’ recording of it is inevitably going to include a...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 7/1997

Beethoven String Quartets, Volume 2

I reviewed the first of the Kodaly Quartet’s CDs of the Op. 18 Quartets (coupling Nos. 1 and 2) along...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1996

Schumann Das Paradies und die Peri etc

How gratified Schumann would be at today's great new interest in his larger-scale choral works, not least the first, Das...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 12/1995

Liszt Piano Works, Vol. 9

The seventh and ninth instalments of Naxos’s Herculean project are tantalizing and thought-provoking, respectively. They are also superbly played and...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/1998

Organ Imperial Works by British composers

Carlo Curley goes from strength to strength in his organ series for Argo. This is not only one of the...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1992

Lidholm Orchestral Works

During the late 1950s and early ’60s when these pieces were composed, Ingvar Lidholm was head of chamber music at...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 2/2004

Wagner Die Walküre, Act 1 etc

Here, in Die Walkure, is yet another example of a style of Wagner singing that is virtually lost. Basing their...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1993

Taverner Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas

Four years ago two excellent recordings of the Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas were issued in quick succession, by The Sixteen...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/1988

Donizetti; Mercadante; Rossini Works for Clarinet and Orchestra

The best is left till last here. Mercadante’s E flat Clarinet Concerto, probably written around 1817-20, is quite a substantial...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 7/2000

Bach 6 Suites for Solo Cello

I discussed this set in the context of its rivals in my February ''Quarterly Retrospect'' and hope I will be...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 11/1985

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