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Mozart Sacred Arias

Barbara Hendricks has chosen well: these arias are just the vehicle for the scale and timbre of her voice and...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 5/1988

Novák Pan

Pan was written as a tone-poem for piano in 1910 but, perhaps finding the medium too constraining, Novak orchestrated it...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1991

Mendelssohn & Schubert

The genius of the youthful Mendelssohn in composing the Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream at the age of only...

Reviewed in issue 7/1985

Mozart Horn Concertos

Leading this batch is Munchinger's splendidly alive and stylish coupling of two Bach choral masterpieces, the Easter Oratorio and Magnificat....

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/2000

Alfred Brendel - 80th Birthday Tribute

The blurb on the back of Decca’s 80th-birthday tribute has a quote from Brendel: “I am delighted that these live...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 5/2011

Baroque Orchestral Works

Its title ''Pachelbel: Canon And Gigue'' with such evidently minor composers as Handel and Haydn in small print below suggests...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1986

Schumann Works for Piano & Orchestra

Whereas the current CD catalogue lists over 60 versions of Schumann's Piano Concerto, there are to my knowledge only four...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1994

Curtis Chamber Works, Vol 1

Campion Cameo has already put out three CDs of Matthew Curtis’s orchestral music, of which I reviewed the third (12/06)....

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 6/2007

Marcello Piano Sonatas

Benedetto Marcello (1686-1739) was a mere eight years younger than his fellow Venetian Antonio Vivaldi and uses a similar musical...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 1/2012

Martin Golgotha

Martin’s oratorio Golgotha has been well represented on CD recently despite its being a rarity in concert programmes. This splendid...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 5/2010

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