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Alison Balsom – Trumpet and Organ Recital

EMI’s most dazzling trumpet recital is arguably that by John Wallace (for the Virtuosi series, 11/94 – nla), one of...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 3/2003

(The) Ligeti Project, Vol 5

Teldec’s continuation of the series initiated by Sony to record all Ligeti’s acknowledged works reaches its final instalment with this...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 11/2004

Massenet Hérodiade

For most of recorded history there was no complete recording of Massenet’s biblical opera‚ one of his earliest successes and...

Reviewed in issue 3/2002

C.P.E. Bach Harpsichord Concertos

Between 1740 and 1768 Bach’s second son by his first marriage, Carl Philipp Emanuel, served as court harpsichordist to Frederick...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1996

Patterson Mass of the Sea; Sinfonia for Strings

Paul Patterson's Mass of the Sea, written for the Gloucester Three Choirs Festival in 1983, warmly and immediately communicative, makes...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1987

Vienna State Opera Live, Vol.18

The extracts from Lohengrin are the more important. Although the circumstances of the performance are, to say the least, unfortunate...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1996

Charpentier Choral works

Nicholas Anderson suffered the handicap of a poor pressing when reviewing the LP but even so found it ''an issue...

Reviewed in issue 1/1987

Kodály Cello Sonata; Cello Sonatina

I can remember first hearing the Kodály Solo Sonata, nearly 50 years ago, and being amazed at its scope and...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 8/2010

R. Strauss Salome

Text and musical gesture shine as bright as the moon over Judaea in this remarkably fresh-sounding Salome. Suitner was lucky...

Reviewed in issue 4/1996

Bach Keyboard Works

Miscellaneous Bach, but Angela Hewitt isn’t scraping the bottom of the barrel. On the contrary, she has selected what appeals...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 10/2004

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