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Ives/Brahms/Reger Variations

I don't mind a degree of decorum in Ives's America (i.e. ''God save the Queen'') Variations: with the jokes overdone,...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/1992

Mozart Sinfonia concertante, K364

The Sinfonia Concertante is given a sensitive performance which I much enjoyed. Luigi Bianchi is a name new to me....

Reviewed in issue 8/1986

Organ Fireworks, Vol. 1

One of the advantages of reading The Times is to be able to note, week by week, the generous provision...

Reviewed in issue 6/1984

Carole Bogard (Soprano) - Baroque Cantatas and Arias

This disc contains recordings made in 1969 and 1971. Carole Bogard was a stylish baroque singer in those days, making...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1999

Lully Cadmus & Hermione

Lully’s Cadmus et Hermione (1673) inaugurated the era of tragédie lyrique that held sway until the Revolution. The DVD...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 2/2009

Haydn (The) Creation

Haydn and his librettist Baron van Swieten conceived The Creation as the first bilingual oratorio and would surely have been...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 3/2008

Benda Lieder & Fortepiano Music

Here is something of a rarity, and an engaging one, too. Georg, or Jiri Antonin as he was christened, was...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1994

Brahms Piano Quartet No.1, Op. 25; (4) Serious Songs, Op. 121

Both these discs show Brahms in an unusual light. Schoenberg’s orchestration of the G minor Quartet is comparatively familiar; to...

Reviewed in issue 10/2001

All Souls' Vespers

The second recording from the Orchestra of the Renaissance, this time on Virgin Veritas, presents a reconstruction of Vespers for...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 10/1997

Sciarrino Chamber Works

Salvatore Sciarrino’s music has much to do with silence. His works often seem already to have begun when the first...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2005

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