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Weiss Lute Sonatas, Vol 8

It’s a curious fact that the sarabande’s originally overt eroticism has never been entirely eradicated. Perhaps it’s the same for...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 4/2007

Prokofiev Betrothal in a Monastery

Though Shostakovich’s reputation goes from strength to strength, Prokofiev’s remains problematic and Glyndebourne’s recently resuscitated Betrothal in a Monastery received...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 7/2008

Eben; Martinu; Smetana Piano Trios

An imaginatively planned programme which showcases, as the album’s excellent annotator Robert Philip suggests, “the complete span of what is...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 7/2010

Flotow Alessandro Stradella

Readers who keep their back numbers for a while (and I’d like to think they keep them for ever) may...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 1/2006

Fasch Concertos

Johann Friedrich Fasch was almost an exact contemporary of JS Bach. He was educated in Leipzig but pursued a life...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 6/2008

Chopin Piano Works

How pleasant it would be to join in the chorus and celebrate Vlado Perlemuter, a one-time student of Ravel and...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2004

Rameau Chamber Works

Rameau's anomalous Pieces de clavecin en concerts—chamber music on the fringe of the pre-classical movement—have been recorded several times in...

Reviewed in issue 9/1989

Bach English Suites

The young Japanese harpsichordist, Mayako Sone, was a pupil of Kenneth Gilbert and the late Scott Ross. In 1985 she...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1992

A Flemish Feast - Flemish Renaissance Wind Music

If secular vocal music comes a poor second to sacred music in the early-music discography, instrumental music now surely ranks...

Reviewed in issue 6/2000

Puccini Tosca

This is a “strong” Tosca, using the adjective in the sense in which it is sometimes applied to language (meaning...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 13/2007

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