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Charpentier Judicium Salomonis, H422

Les Arts Florissants' programme is a vitalised whirl through two of Charpentier's substantial grand motets. Composed near the end of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2006

Handel. Vivaldi Cantatas & Sonatas

The Four Nations Ensemble, an American group, are new to me. They are very efficient and energetic, playing this rather...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/2001

Menotti Help, Help, The Globolinks

Directed by the composer with all the colourful melodrama of an American B-movie, the soloists of Hamburg’s late-1960s house ensemble...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 5/2007

Musical Books of Hours

The illuminations that grace the most splendid books of hours are the visual counterpart to the motets on this recording...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 8/1998

Maxwell Davies Taverner

On the one hand, sublimely euphonious sacred music; on the other hand, the primitive barbarity of torture and burnings at...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/2010

Mendelssohn String Quartets 3 & 5

The Roth Quartet, founded in 1981, have not previously made any commercial recordings and they show enterprise in venturing into...

Reviewed in issue 5/1988

Rosso - Italian Baroque Arias

This enterprisingly planned recital confirms Patricia Petibon as a singing actress with few peers in Baroque opera. Her nimble, flutey...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 6/2010

Wagner Lohengrin

When discussing the available versions of Lohengrin at the time of the issue of Solti's Decca recording, I described this...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/1988

Rachmaninov/Miaskovsky Cello Sonatas

Twenty cellists have now contributed a recording of Rachmaninov’s Sonata to the current catalogue, the senior of them being Paul...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1996

Chopin Sonatas for Piano Ops. 35 & 58; Barcarolle Op. 60.

Artur Pizarro’s triumphant round of the competition circuit was followed by a fallow period. And so it is doubly gratifying...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2006

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