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Bach Well-Tempered Clavier, Books 1 & 2

Listening to Angela Hewitt’s latest thoughts on Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier alongside her late-1990s Hyperion cycle (11/98, 7/99), it appears that...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 6/2009

Strauss, R (Ein) Alpensinfonie

As the richly sonorous evocation in the deep brass of “Night” and the blazing “Sunrise” demonstrate, leading naturally to the...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/2011

Monteverdi Sacred Works, Vol 3

This selection draws on three sources of church music by Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale (1640/41), the posthumous Messa a...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2004

Verismo Arias - Mirella Freni

Freni sets out on a path new to her on records, entering Muzio-territory, or, if preferred, Olivero-land. Callas and Tebaldi...

Reviewed in issue 9/1992

Wagner Parsifal

After Krauss's 1953 Ring at Bayreuth, reviewed in June, here is his Parsifal from the same festival. It appears to...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1988

Four and Twenty Fiddlers

Peter Holman is exceptional among professional musicians for his scholarly command of his chosen repertory, deriving from his work on...

Reviewed in issue 6/1994

Ireland Songs

With the one obvious exception, Ireland’s songs are not made of the stuff that gains popularity.In Sea Fever he hit...

Reviewed in issue 8/1999

Schubert Impromptus

''Rejuvenated'' was the word chosen by Michael Oliver when Brendel's oldish recording of the Impromptus reappeared on CD this April....

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 10/1984

Roslavets Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2

For her second Hyperion disc, Alina Ibragimova chooses repertoire even rarer and more neglected. Roslavets’s First Violin Concerto (1925) was...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 1/2009

Nyman The Piano Concerto;Prospero's Books;On the Fiddle

Nyman’s swirling, grandly romantic Piano Concerto is more than just an opportunistic reworking of material from the hugely popular film...

Reviewed by rseeley in issue: 2/1997

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