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Frescobaldi: Keyboard Works

Records of early keyboard music can often be rather daunting affairs. It is far from easy to listen to, for...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 6/1987

Messiaen Poèmes pour Mi/Haikai/Reveil des Oiseaux.

Since all the performances here are excellent, virtuoso indeed, and the recordings are first-class, this can be confidently recommended to...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/1998

Berg Wozzeck

Wozzeck is perfect for the small screen, as the composer and intendant Rolf Liebermann intuited when he made his seventh...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 6/2007

Bach Orchestral Suites

Harmonia Mundi have shown restraint and a lofty disregard for prevailing market forces in previously declining to admit either a...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1996

Beethoven Fidelio

Naxos seems to have an uncanny knack for choosing the right artists for its operatic ventures. On this occasion, perhaps...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1999

Barber Concerto for Cello, Op.22; Medea, Op.23; Adagio, Op.11

The main interest here is probably Medea, the suite for full orchestra derived from Barber’s original score for 13 instruments...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 3/2001

Peter Schreier sings Beethoven Lieder

This CD is drawn from a series of LPs Schreier made for Telefunken in the mid 1970s, available briefly in...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1989

Sullivan Guinevere and other Ballads

Sullivan's ballads are mostly early works, written before his greater celebrity as a theatre composer. The earliest piece here, Ich...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 2/1995

F. Schmidt Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln

I have been seeking out broadcasts and recordings of this oratorio ever since, 20 or so years ago, I first...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1996

Mozart & Kramar Oboe Concertos

Good recordings of Mozart's K314 are not in short supply, so the interest here focuses on Krommer. Franz Krommer, or...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 4/1991

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