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Purcell Keyboard Works

Containing the eight suites, miscellaneous grounds and popular tunes, Gibbons presents Purcell in his most domestic vein. Yet there is...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/1999

The Brightest Heaven of Invention

This is a special one, tailored for those who like their music unusual, powerful and fascinating. During the last third...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 3/1993

Mendelssohn Concerto for Piano;Double Concerto

Only recently the Double Concerto appeared in a recording (apparently the first) that revived parts for trumpets and drums. Those...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2011

Barber Vanessa

Vanessa, the first of Barber's two full-scale operas, was staged at the Met in New York in 1958. This recording...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 7/1990

Mozart Edition, Vol. 9

Both these issues share the same title, suggesting a complete survey of one area of Mozart's music. However, one is...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1991

Walton/Bridge String Quartets

Few British string quartets are as good as Frank Bridge's Third, and it has been unavailable on disc for far...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/1991

Telemann Recorder Works

This is an attractive selection of pieces in which the treble recorder features prominently. But it is a little misleading...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1991

Handel Messiah

Well, this is a surprise. Of all the Messiahs lit by the laser beam in the last decade, this is...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 4/1993

Handel Trio Sonatas, Op 5

Handel’s Opus 5 Trio Sonatas were published by John Walsh in 1739. Earlier publications of Handel’s chamber music were cobbled...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 3/2006

The Moscow Sessions - II

These are three of the most important chamber works of the twentieth century; yet it is surprisingly difficult to come...

Reviewed in issue 9/1992

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