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The Enchanted Kingdom

A more predictable context for Liadov’s three miniatures masterpieces would have been to follow the music of the composer who...

Reviewed in issue 7/1996

Carissimi Jonas

John Eliot Gardiner has chosen to give Carissimi oratorios the celebrity treatment he has usually reserved for Monteverdi, Handel and,...

Reviewed in issue 11/1990

Pandolfo Travel Notes

I don’t know why, but among ‘early’ musicians, it always seems to be viol players who are the most willing...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 7/2004

R. Simpson Complete Choral & Organ Works

Simpson would never have claimed that choral music was his metier. Yet for lovers of his music there is something...

Reviewed in issue 2/1999

Corsican chant from Franciscan manuscripts

Organum's recordings of various kinds of chant invariably leave me astounded by the musical—and spiritual—revelations they offer and frustrated by...

Reviewed in issue 1/1995

Stravinsky Oedipus Rex

Oedipus and Jocasta are both put under severe strain. True. But to what extent should this show up in their...

Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 1/2005

Schumann Piano Concerto

The bait here is the Albumblätter, Op 124. This is hardly vintage Schumann but it is fascinating to hear chippings...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/2011

Medtner Vocal Works

Refreshingly and exceptionally, Medtner im- presses as a composer who writes because he loves the sound of music, and more...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 6/2004

Bréton La Dolores

The assertion by a Spanish music historian in the 1880s that 'Spanish opera does not exist, and never has' was...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 2/2000

Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Maurizio Pollini

Chopin was where Pollini’s career began, and in a year’s time an all-Chopin disc will seal his place as a...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 10/1998

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