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Nuit d'étoiles

It is an imperfect world. So it is that this disc contains the odd moment that I, and no doubt...

Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 5/2000

Martin: Orchestral Works

The year 1990 is the centenary of Frank Martin's birth but its celebration has been muted. Although his current representation...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 12/1990

Beethoven Symphonies Nos 1 & 5

There have been few recent Beethoven issues so exciting as this—the first disc in Muti's new cycle. The excitement is,...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 10/1986

Weber; Ries Clarinet Chamber Works

Though Weber did once refer in his diary to a clarinet sonata, his final title for this work, Grand Duo...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/2003

Bacewicz Piano Works

Although Grove lists several other pieces‚ the booklet claims that this disc includes all Grazyna Bacewicz’s music for solo piano‚...

Reviewed in issue 6/2002

Beethoven Symphonies Nos 6 & 8

Sorting out the sheep from the goats—I hope the metaphor is an appropriately pastoral one—is difficult when we are confronted...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/1987

Spirit of the Guitar

Williams's annotational statement that ''Within Europe the guitar had been, until the twentieth century, constrained by its Spanish identity'' owes...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 8/1989

Bach Keyboard Works

How is it that it has taken so long for Angela Hewitt's first, excellent recording of Bach (DG, 10/86—now available...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/1994

Vivaldi In furore, Laudate pueri e concerti sacri

‘In furore is the ideal score for any soprano who’s spoiling for a fight – with herself!’ So says Sandrine...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 8/2006

Holt (A) Book of Colours

To call a piano composition “a book of colours” does rather underline the black-and-white basis of the instrument and, given...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/2009

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