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Handel Overtures

This seems a slightly old-fashioned record. With so many Handel overtures available nowadays, in their proper contexts, a selection of...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 8/1994

Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem

The appearance on CD of Solti's 1979 Chicago recording of the Brahms Requiem is most welcome. On balance, I think...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/1986

Bach Keyboard Works

The reissue of Martha Argerich’s recordings, their reappearance in this or that format, testifies to the unique and enduring nature...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: /2000

Schubert: Piano Works

Only the Wanderer Fantasy and two Impromptus played by Rubinstein are reissues here; otherwise all the material is new to...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 2/1989

Donizetti Don Pasquale

No other set of this work has yet appeared on CD, so this estimable four-year-old version has the field to...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1988

Constant Lambert Vocal & Orchestral Works

Of course all new recordings 'make a difference' in some degree; this one really makes a difference. Summer's Last Will...

Reviewed in issue 6/1992

Rameau (Les) Cyclopes

It seems that Trevor Pinnock has always had a passion for Rameau. The sparkling authority he brought to the Pièces...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 12/2005

Classical Legends - In Their Own Words

This is like one of those books which you wouldn’t dream of reading on your own account, but which, having...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 10/2010

Piano Works from the Husum Festival 2001

Here is a lucky 13th disc from the ever-resourceful Schloss vor Husum Festival, dedicated to adventurous rather than conservative music...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/2003

Tchaikovsky Complete Piano Works

Why, given the seemingly indestructible popularity of the B flat Piano Concerto, should Tchaikovsky's solo piano music be so little...

Reviewed in issue 7/1993

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