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Variations on America

This is a mixed bag of curiosities in American organ music with several first recordings. There are unknown student works...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 8/2009

Verdi Simon Boccanegra

These two live accounts of Verdi’s dark-hued Genoese opera were performed almost exactly 50 years apart. Both are notable, as...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/2003

Locatelli flute sonatas

Locatelli, a younger Italian contemporary of Vivaldi, settled in Amsterdam during the late 1720s. Like Vivaldi he was a renowned...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1987

Puccini La Bohème

Youthful readers must now be patient while the eyes of their elders gleam and aged heads nod in venerable reminiscence....

Reviewed in issue 3/1995

Diamond String Quartets Volume 3

In a 1995 interview, David Diamond discussed his String Quartet No 1, which was composed at Yaddo in 1940. Other...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 1/2005

Chopin; Kats-Chernin; Rachmaninov Cello Works

The Ng brothers, twins, were born and brought up in Australia, prior to studying in the UK. David Tong, originally...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 1/2009

Schumann Lieder

Thomas Allen is gaining notable recognition as a recitalist. Dichterliebe has always been one of his favourite offerings, and he...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1989

17th & 18th Century Chants of the Roman Church

This performance, based on two graduals from St Peter's in Rome, (Vat. Lat. 5319, eleventh-twelfth century, and Arch. S. Pietro...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 9/1992

Mozart clarinet works

The two performances of Mozart's Concerto on these records are in considerable contrast to one another. For one thing, Shifrin...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/1987

Shostakovich/Schnittke Piano Trios

Shostakovich’s adolescent First Trio is no longer a rarity on CD, and with repeated hearings its ramshackle structure seems to...

Reviewed in issue 12/1998

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