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Bachas Wohltemperierte Klavier, Book 2

It is a strange thing to have to say about so experienced and respected an artist as Blandine Verlet but...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1995

Mozart Idomeneo

Unless and until further research proves otherwise, this version will remain the definitive recording of Mozart's early masterpiece for a...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1991

Haydn Piano Works

Andras Schiff is one of the few top-flight pianists around who has consistently championed Haydn, not only the sonatas but...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 5/1999

Purcell Complete Odes & Welcome Songs, Vol.6

There are countless ways in which Robert King's now completed cycle of the Purcell odes and welcome songs is a...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 3/1993

Haydn Seven Last Words

As the yellowing Novello scores in many a second-hand music shop testify, the oratorio version of the Seven Last Words...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 5/1992

Schubert Piano Sonatas

Michael Endres’s third volume of Schubert sonatas (the first two were reviewed in 9/95 and 11/95 respectively) comprehensively displays the...

Reviewed in issue 5/1996

(The) Rise of the North Italian Violin Concerto Vol 3

La Serenissima’s examination of influential formative years of the violin concerto here reaches its end with works from what the...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2008

Mozart Le Nozze di Figaro

Harnoncourt's Figaro is a big-boned, grand-scale, very serious reading—perhaps too serious for its own good and unquestionably studio-bound when set...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1994

Sentimento

A collection of the classic Italian popular songs of Rossini, Tosti, Denza, Leoncavallo and Gastaldon can normally be relied upon...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 2/2003

Tallis Lamentations of Jeremiah; Mass for Four Voices

It is always very satisfying to hear an excellent ensemble performing a classic that all its members have known for...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 4/1988

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