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Villa-Lobos Orchestral Works

It is a cliche to liken Villa-Lobos's denselytextured, exotically coloured scores to the lush masses of giant foliage and exuberant...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 3/1992

Simon Estes sings Verdi Arias

I cannot summon much enthusiasm for this disc. Estes, as we know from his work in Wagner possesses a strong,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1988

Bach/Beethoven/Mozart Works for Violin and Piano

Critics and commentators alike have declared that the innocent ear would take the playing of this latest 14-year-old violinist for...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 4/1995

Liszt & Tchaikovsky Symphonic poems

This is really a record for admirers of Liszt. Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne is virtually never given in...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1987

Bach Double Concerto; Schnittke Concerto Grosso No 1

Transcription, in various guises, is central to the works on this disc – flute and oboe being substituted for two...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 11/2011

Mozart Violin Sonatas, Vol. 3

If you want a nice, polished, civilized performance of Mozart's late sonatas for piano and violin, don't buy this CD....

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/1995

Vivaldi Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca

In the light of Cecilia Bartoli's recent high- profile efforts to promote Vivaldi the dramatist (Decca, 12/99), it is a...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 6/2000

Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet - Highlights

I'll get my only real bugbear out of the way first. Myung-Whun Chung's selection offers us Prokofiev's first two suites...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/1994

Rituel - Sacred chants from the early Capetian era

This anthology presents monophonic and polyphonic pieces specifically connected with French monarchs of the direct Capetian line (987-1328), including coronation...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 9/1998

Schubert String Quartets, D703 & D810

The sound ASV have provided for the Lindsay Quartet on CD is still not very ingratiating, but the somewhat metallic...

Reviewed in issue 3/1987

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