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Handel Affetti Barocchi

Hot on the heels of Carolyn Sampson’s Hyperion recording of Handel’s delectable German arias (7/07) comes the doyenne of American...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2007

Handel Concerti grossi, Op. 6

Purcell's Fantasias for viols, Bach's The Art of Fugue and the Concerti grossi, Op. 6 of Handel—what do they have...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 5/1987

Brahms/Mendelssohn Violin Concertos

In collecting circles the name of Johanna Martzy is revered, and her records fetch enormous prices on the second-hand market....

Reviewed in issue 9/1994

Souvenir Russe

This young Latvian violinist makes a quiet but marked impression here. There is modesty and a touching fragility about her...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 8/2008

American Chamber Music with Flute

This is a most attractive release in every way. It was an ingenious idea to couple Copland's works involving the...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 9/1990

Bliss - Sacred Choral Music

The longest works here, The Shield of Faith and The World is charged with the grandeur of God, come respectively...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/1999

Silvestrov Stufen (song cycle)

Valentin Silvestrov is not just the Ukraine’s most prominent composer but also a major voice in the music of our...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 1/2003

Dvorák Symphony No. 7; My Home

Previn directs a tautly rhythmic account of this greatest of the symphonies Dvorak symphonies. Rather than creating atmosphere, he tends...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1989

Elgar/Parry Music for Strings

It was a good idea to bring Parry and Elgar together on this record of English music; and the Elgar...

Reviewed in issue 12/1984

British!

Steffen Schleiermacher tells us that his knowledge of British culture derives in its entirety from TV crime dramas of the...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 11/2011

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