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Medieval & Traditional Music of Spring & Summer

This record presents a view of summer and spring seen primarily through the eyes of the Middle Ages. But it...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 5/1984

Spanish Encores

The original review of the LP from which most of the items here are drawn suggested that Alicia de Larrocha...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 6/1987

Pergolesi Messa Romana; Scarlatti Per il Santa Natale

These two Masses were performed in Rome almost 30 years apart by composers both strongly associated with Naples. The Messa...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 1/2010

Bach (6) Cello Suites

Since the mid-1960s, when Nikolaus Harnoncourt made the first recording of the Bach Suites on a “Baroque cello” (not released...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 6/2011

Prokofiev Piano Sonatas

Why, I find myself asking, has it taken recording companies so long to realize the importance and value of Prokofiev's...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 6/1992

Britten String Quartets

The second disc in the Sorrel Quartet’s Britten series is as well filled as the first (9/96), and as well...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/1999

Anthology of Czech Piano Works, Vol. 2

The Czech Dances fall into two groups; a set of four polkas (1877) and ten miscellaneous dances (1879)—all written, in...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1993

Liszt Piano Works, Vol.30

This new two-disc Vol. 30 in Howard's mammoth Liszt cycle is the third of his operatic outings, once more ranging...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1995

Bartók Orchestral Works

This is very much Academy Bartok—stylish, civilized urbane. Marriner 'hears' everything: we know all about his sensitive, refined ear and...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/1991

James Dillon 2-Chamber Music

The earliest work on this disc, Crossing over for clarinet (1978), already displays the essence of that highly personal blend...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/1996

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