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Recital by Elly Ameling

Yet another aspect of Ameling: a collection of late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century operatic arias and arie antiche which will delight...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 7/1986

The Mengelberg Edition, Volume 11

American-born Guila Bustabo was an exceedingly passionate player and at least one of the recordings reissued here shows her at...

Reviewed in issue 3/1997

Orff Carmina burana

As I suspected, the quality of the original RCA recording of Carmina burana conducted by Mata was damped down in...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1984

Kodály Choral Works

Laudes organi shows only too clearly its origins as a commission for the American Guild of Organists. It is little...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 1/1995

Bach Violin Concertos

I've commented before that the three 'basic' violin concertos of Bach leave a good deal of unused time on a...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 5/1988

Mozart Serenades

During these last few months I seem to have spent a surprising amount of time listening to new recordings, or...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 1/1988

Haydn String Quartets, Op. 55

Collectors of the Salomon’s long-evolving Haydn series, now within sight of the home straight, will find all their familiar virtues...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 7/1996

Handel - Between Heaven and Earth

Sandrine Piau’s survey of arias selected from Handel’s oratorios (Italian and English) and odes is a curate’s egg: often imaginative...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2009

Forgotten Romance

With Steven Isserlis and Stephen Hough an inspired duo, natural recording artists both, this is one of the most enjoyable...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1996

Lang, D Child

The renegade composers of Bang on a Can have been quietly growing up. Even David Lang, the ‘brattiest’ of the...

Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 10/2003

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