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Boccherini Flute Quintets

These are very polished and assured performances of Boccherini’s quintettinos for flute and strings; yet they do not quite capture...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/1997

Beethoven Symphonies Nos 4 and 7

These are lean, swiftly paced, competently played performances, with all repeats observed. The Seventh Symphony comes off the better of...

Reviewed in issue 8/1997

Offenbach La belle Hélène

I approached this new Belle Helene with doubts as to whether Jessye Norman could oust from my affections Jane Rhodes,...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 12/1985

Lalo Symphonie espagnole

In 1873, the year before writing Symphonie espagnole, Lalo composed another work for the great Spanish violinist Sarasate – his...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 13/2009

Stravinsky Fairy's Kiss

Recordings such as this run the risk of prompting reams of purple prose, so I may as well spare the...

Reviewed in issue 11/1997

Messiaen Complete Organ Works

Olivier Messiaen was of towering importance to the world of 20th­century music. Yet the seven­and a­half hours of his compositions...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 5/2002

Say Orchestral & Instrumental Works

As a pianist, Say is dividing opinion with his recent Mozart disc (see page 78); as a composer the reaction...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 9/1998

Donizetti Lucrezia Borgia

I must admit to being in an anti-Donizetti phase just at the present, and one not much helped by a...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1990

Arne Artaxerxes

Written in 1762, Arne’s English opera seria enjoyed a success which endured till the score was lost in the fire...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 4/2011

Telemann Recorder Sonatas

The six works played on this disc—and I cannot recall an earlier recording—were published in Hamburg under the title ''Sonates...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1991

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