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Marais Pièce de Viole - Book 5

Of Marin Marais's five published books of Pieces de viole, the Fifth (1725) is the least known - with the...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 1/2000

Brahms Choral Works

This reissue fills an important gap in that no other recording of Rinaldo is available. Critical response to this cantata...

Reviewed in issue 9/1992

Debussy Chamber Works

Debussy's Violin Sonata demands a special type of refinement from its interpreter, both regarding technique and a fine awareness of...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 5/1987

Mahler Symphony No 7

This is Rattle's second recording of the Seventh Symphony. We shall never hear the first. Those tapes, made in the...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 9/1992

Schubert Octet

Musicfest is an ensemble that grew out of the 1987 Aberystwyth Music Festival, and consists of a number of artists...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1991

Pletnev - Live at Carnegie Hall

The billed recital was the Bach-Busoni transcription, the Beethoven Sonata Op 111 and the Chopin Scherzos, and the rest –...

Reviewed in issue 5/2001

Handel Water Music

The choice here lies perhaps more in what these three recordings offer than in how it is played. In no...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 6/1987

Cardoso/Lôbo Choral Works

The Sixteen's involvement with Iberian music continues with a programme of works by two contemporaries, both students together at Evora,...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 8/1994

Mozart (Die) Zauberflöte

Jacobs sets out his stall in a long booklet essay. His avowed aim is to create for CD a “Hörspiel...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 13/2010

La Paloma Spanish & Latin American Favourites

Efforts to persuade guitar-lovers to embrace the unfamiliar are all too often box office failures or produce, at best, minimal...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 3/1992

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