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Handel Messiah

Taking his cue from Handel's 1751 performances, Edward Higginbottom assigns all the soprano solos to some talented boy trebles from...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2006

Massenet Melodies

So closely is Massenet associated with operas and other stage works that his more than 250 songs have been largely...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 2/1988

Schoenberg & Zemlinsky String Quartets

This coupling makes a useful historical point. Schoenberg's apprentice string quartet owes much to the advice of Zemlinsky: yet Zemlinsky's...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 7/1990

Flotow Martha

Written by a frenchified German, set in Queen Anne's England, sung by the stars of yesteryear in Italian, and enlisting...

Reviewed in issue 2/1989

Mendelssohn Symphony No 3; Schubert Symphony No 8

The members of the New Symphony Orchestra, drawn from the Sofia Radio Orchestra, are a comparatively young ensemble founded in...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/2003

18th Century Harpsichord Works

No apologies are needed for this remarkable testament to the keyboard virtuosity and compositional skills of five late eighteenth-century European...

Reviewed in issue 12/1989

Charpentier: Solemn Vespers

The Solemn Vespers performed on this comparatively recent two-disc album was not designed as such by Charpentier, but is, to...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1990

Brahms/Busoni Violin Sonatas

These sonatas have been particularly well served on disc over the years, and I have to say that any newcomer...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 12/1988

Godowsky Strauss Transcriptions and other Waltzes

The multi-levelled labyrinths of Leopold Godowsky’s piano-writing have long been second nature to Marc-André Hamelin. Listeners familiar with earlier Hamelin...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 9/2008

Walton Symphony No 1

When Colin Davis conducted Walton’s First Symphony at the Barbican it was greeted by ecstatic notices – and rightly so....

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2006

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