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Solomon plays Schumann and Brahms

For me, Solomon’s 1952 recordings of Schumann’s Carnaval and the Brahms Sonata in F minor are essential for the desert...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 7/1997

Jan Garbarek & The Hilliard Ensemble - Officium Novum

There’s something strangely captivating about hearing Jan Garbarek and the Hilliards chase each other across the centuries to the music...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2010

Canteloube Chants d'Auvergne

Decca followed this CBS recording with Kiri Te Kanawa's selection and, issuing the CD in quick order (410 004-2DH, 7/83),...

Reviewed in issue 7/1985

Boismortier Six Concertos for Five Flutes

Five solo flutes is not a sound you hear every day, and when those flutes are mellow-toned baroque-style instruments, all...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/1997

Beethoven Christus am Olberge

Christus am Oelberge (‘Christ on the Mount of Olives’) is a curious piece, reflecting much that was characteristic of Beethoven...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/2000

Beethoven Missa Solemnis. Mozart Mass in C minor

Robert Shaw won the Gramophone Award for the best choral recording of the year with his performance of Verdi's Requiem...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/1988

Mozart Piano Works

Collectors already following these artists' on-going series of the Mozart piano concertos will no doubt take this new disc on...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 5/1993

Music for San Marco in Venice

The music at St Mark’s‚ Venice in the early 17th century yields seemingly inexhaustible riches‚ upon which this attractive programme...

Reviewed in issue 10/2001

Bach Wohltemperierte Klavier, Part 2

What was successful in Book 1 (11/00) is just as successful here. And to his previous line-up of four keyboards,...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 1/2001

Haydn Concertos

This CBS compilation would seem an attractive proposition: it includes what most music-lovers would regard as three out of four...

Reviewed in issue 1/1986

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