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Puccini Opera Arias and Duets

Though the Czech tenor, Peter Dvorsky, born in 1951, tends to be associated on disc with the Slavonic repertory, he...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1999

Piano Recital

Richard Uttley, in his early twenties, has put together an enjoyable programme of British music for his first solo recording:...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/2008

Purcell Suites and Transcriptions for Harpsichord

Keyboard players have always regretted that so little of Purcell’s music for them has survived: it consists mainly of eight...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1998

Bax Symphony No. 5, The Tale the Pine-Trees Knew

The Fifth is perhaps the most characteristic of Bax’s cycle of seven symphonies, but for all the music’s powerful range...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/2000

French Chansons

Anthologies of the French chanson on CD are surprisingly thin on the ground. Many collections focus on one or two...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 2/1995

Beethoven Piano Sonatas etc

Variations and fine trifles would seem to be the idea that binds together this somewhat heterogeneous collection of pieces, the...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1996

Bach (The) Well-Tempered Klavier, Book 1

What an imaginative idea; and Bach would probably be the last person to object. After all, he simply specified a...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 11/2000

Joseph Hislop (1884-1977)

Designed to supplement Michael Turnbull's book on Hislop (recently published by Scholar Press and reviewed in November on page 15),...

Reviewed in issue 1/1993

Caldara Missa Sanctorum Cosmae et Damiani;Tuma Sonatas

Viennese church music of the generations before Haydn and Mozart is regrettably unfamiliar, and this attractive CD fills in something...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 4/2000

Concertos for Four Horns

To suggest that Haydn’s Hornsignal Symphony is a concerto for four horns is perhaps a liberty too far but who...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 4/2006

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