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Akiko Nakajima

Up they come, the first Elizabethans would say, ‘like midnight mushrumps’, but that doesn’t sound very complimentary. I mean these...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/2006

Caplet Orchestral and Vocal Works

Chiefly remembered as a gifted conductor in Paris, London and Boston, and as a close friend of Debussy (whose Martyre...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 2/1993

Ries Complete Sonatas and Sonatinas, Vol 4

The forgotten works of Ferdinand Ries (1784‑1838), well served lately by both CPO and Naxos, are of variable quality and...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 8/2011

Bacewicz; Enescu Violin & Piano Works

Chandos’s first foray into the music of Grazÿyna Bacewicz (1909-69) was “Polish Capriccio” and featured Joanna Kurkowicz playing the Fourth...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2008

R. Strauss Oboe Concerto; Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme suite

This is a very well performed Strauss disc and these works go suitably together, since the seeds of the late...

Reviewed in issue 9/1990

Flos Florum - Italian Vespers in Bohemia (c1650)

‘Flos Florum’ (Flower of Flowers) is a liturgical reconstruction of a Vespers for the Feast of the Assumption. The idea...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1999

Palestrina Sacred Choral Works

Palestrina’s motets do not enjoy the sort of coverage garnered by his Masses. They often appear alongside a Mass, but...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 7/1998

Works by Bax

This cassette-only release is entitled ''Bax Bonanza'', an incongruously extrovert title for this enigmatic composer! It is certainly an adventurous...

Reviewed in issue 9/1986

Handel (La) Lucrezia; Arias from Serse & Theodora

In the midst of performances of Peter Sellers’ production of Theodora for Glyndebourne in 2003, history relates that Harry Bicket...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 7/2004

R.Strauss Piano Music

Like Tchaikovsky’s piano music, Strauss’s youthful offerings are little more than diversions from his truest enterprise. Certainly there are some...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/1997

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