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Scarlatti & Handel Keyboard Works

Not since the advent of the Assad brothers have I been so impressed by a guitar duo. These Hungarian twin...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 5/2000

Poulenc Complete Piano Works

Pascal Roge has not yet followed up his selection of Poulenc piano pieces for Decca ((CD) 417 438-2DH, 7/87), there...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 3/1990

Bartók Violin Concerto No. 2; Rhapsodies Nos. 1 & 2

The constituent parts of this carefully considered production include a velvet-toned solo line, fastidious instrumental balancing, fine orchestral playing and...

Reviewed in issue 6/1999

Eben Organ Works Vol 4

The Norwegian organist Halgeir Schiager has done more than most to promote the music of the Czech composer, pianist and...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2005

Handel Saul

No recording of Saul has it all, but Helmuth Rilling has a trump card in Daniel Taylor, whose honey-toned David...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 2/2008

Hildegard of Bingen Heavenly Revelations

Here is a new recording of music by that astonishing, ever-popular twelfth-century abbess, Hildegard of Bingen. Some of the pieces...

Reviewed in issue 9/1995

Debussy & Ravel Orchestral works

Another cleverly planned and generous programme of works from the two Frenchmen, spanning from one of Debussy's first major compositions,...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/1992

Gluck Orfeo

Not very long ago, the standard view of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice was that a compromise text, between the Italian...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 1/1990

Puccini Madama Butterfly

This quite overwhelming performance of what I always regard as Puccini’s masterpiece has the advantage of Victoria de los Angeles’s...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/2007

Arnold Symphonies Nos 1 and 2 – Hickox

In October 1991 I welcomed to CD the composer's own 1980 EMI recording of the First Symphony. That performance is...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/1995

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