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Elgar Music for Violin and Piano

An account of the parent sessions for this record was given in ''News & Views'' in April (page 1141). Everything...

Reviewed in issue 7/1984

Josephine Barstow sings Opera Finales

If hats were worn these days we'd be taking them off, for this really is a splendid achievement. The conception...

Reviewed in issue 9/1990

Vivaldi Trio Sonatas, Op. 1

Good recordings of Vivaldi’s first printed opus are hard to come by. The set lacks the distinctive imprint of what...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 13/1999

Mark Reizen (1895-1992) - I

Glorious singing here by one of the great basses of the century. There can never have been a steadier voice,...

Reviewed in issue 12/1992

Wagner Die Walküre, etc

Here we have another piece of operatic history gleaned from a radio archive, in this case one of several...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1994

Busch Chamber Players play Mozart

Listening to these effervescent performances reaffirms an old but trusted adage – that many of the greatest performers were (or...

Reviewed in issue 6/1997

(Una) stravaganza dei Medici

These Intermedii of 1589 are the only complete examples of this genre of courtly entertainment to have found their way...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 9/2000

Cannon String Quartet;Clarinet Quintet;String Sextet

The Anglo-French composer Philip Cannon (b.1929) has reached his late-sixties without making a particularly strong impact on the musical scene...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/1997

Telemann Pimpione

Telemann's intermezzo Pimpinone was first performed in Hamburg in 1725, by which time the composer had been opera director there...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1992

Rubinstein plays Chopin

Here, in all their glory, are Rubinstein’s 1934-35 recordings of Chopin’s six mature Polonaises framed by examples of his early...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/2001

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