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Debussy String Quartet; Sonata for Flute, Viola & Harp

The Platinum series from ASV‚ released to celebrate the company’s 21st birthday‚ is an object lesson in imaginative mining...

Reviewed in issue 9/2002

Taro Takeuchi - Folias!

The five-course ‘Baroque’ guitar is a highly idiosyncratic instrument with a variety of tunings and no true bass. There were...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 2/2003

Partch U.S.Highball

If the Kronos Quartet, who are celebrating their 30th anniversary season with three half-hour CD ‘singles’, wanted a composer to...

Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 12/2003

Scarlatti, D Complete Sonatas, Volume 4

This is Ottavio Dantone’s second contribution to Stradivarius’ archive of the sonatas. He is to me the most appealing of...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 12/2002

Miaskovsky Symphonies

There are 12 out of 27 now on CD—at this rate collectors of Miaskovsky symphonies on record will soon be...

Reviewed in issue 3/1994

Mercadante Emma d'Antochia

Mercadante was such a good workman – so expert in his writing for voices, with increasing interest in orchestration, and,...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/2004

Bach, CPE Solo Keyboard Works Vol. 19

You would have to be a keen CPE Bach devotee, I think, to be enticed by the sight of “Solo...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 1/2011

Mahler Lieder (orch Berio)

Hard on the heels of Schmidt's account of Berio's arrangements of the Lieder und Gesange (see below) comes this version...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1994

Beethoven Christus

This performance and recording, while not ideal, go a good way towards confirming my view that Christus am Oelberge, has...

Reviewed in issue 6/1987

Victoria The Mystery of the Cross

This is what recording should be about: a project with a vision in which thoughtfully planned programming is allied to...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 5/1998

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