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Bach (The) Complete Keyboard Partitas, BWV825-830

For Henry James (who was wedded to literature rather than music), Bach had ‘the equanimity of a result’. But while...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/2006

Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor

In his programme-note for a concert performance of Lucia di Lammermoor at last year’s Edinburgh Festival (reproduced in this set’s...

Reviewed in issue 13/1998

U-Carmen eKhayelitsha

This is hardly the first retelling of Bizet's Carmen. It's not even the first to feature an all-black cast, with...

Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 12/2006

Monteverdi Selva Morale e Spirituale

It’s eight years since Cantus Cölln and Concerto Palatino issued a complete recording of the Selva morale, which contains the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 5/2009

Bach Goldberg Variations

Forty years ago, when Rosalyn Tureck recorded the Goldberg Variations on two LPs for HMV (2/58), performances in public either...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 1/1999

English music for strings

So far as enterprise is concerned this is the least adventurous of the four CDs from Chandos that I have...

Reviewed in issue 8/1985

Richter plays Prokofiev-The War Sonatas

Even collectors lucky enough to own all the classic versions listed above may look with greedy eyes on a coupling...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Bliss Vocal and Orchestral works

The centenary of Sir Arthur Bliss's birth (August 2nd) is being generously observed by the recording companies, if by nobody...

Reviewed in issue 7/1991

Bach Concertos

It seems a bit naughty of Virgin not to make it clearer to potential buyers that the Bach violin concertos...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 2/2000

Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 30-32

For a recent ‘blind listening’ exercise involving graduate piano students and professionals at Denver University, I brought my advance copy...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 5/2006

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