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Mozart Choral Works

Mariella Devia defies the dry acoustic of the Teatro Lauro Rossi in Macerata to produce a characteristically sweet tone in...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/1999

Beethoven Violin Sonatas 4 & 5

My advice with this second issue in the Kremer/Argerich duo's Beethoven series is not to start—as I did initially—with the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1988

Scarlatti, D Keyboard Sonatas

If a more joyous celebration of Scarlatti’s genius emerges from the anniversary year than this, I should like to hear...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 13/2007

Massenet Grisélidis

For a composer of Massenet's known predilections, Griselidis addresses an unexpected subject. The tale, related by Petrarch, Boccaccio and Perrault...

Reviewed in issue 12/1994

Elgar & Holst Conduct

Holst's 1926 recording of The Planets is not without its problems. Sessions took place in Columbia's studio at Petty France,...

Reviewed in issue 10/1993

Robin Hood - Elizabethan Ballad Settings

Admirers of Paul O’Dette’s consummate artistry will revel in this new recital, played on three instruments: the familiar renaissance lute,...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 7/2001

Bach, CPE Flute Concertos

Although employed for more than 25 years by the most powerful of all flautists, Frederick II, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/2003

American Collection

What accounts for the appeal of Barber's Adagio for strings, or his own 1967 arrangement for voices as an Agnus...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 4/1992

Mozart & Sor: Guitar works

It may have been due to the conservatism of Sor's musical education in Spain that he began to compose in...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 2/1989

Oregon Repertory Singers

John Corigliano’s choral music eschews the more progressive elements found elsewhere in his output in favour of a simpler, more...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/1999

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