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Cherubini/Haydn Masses

Cherubini was born in 1760, four years after Mozart, and lived until 1842, when Beethoven had been in his grave...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 5/1993

Scriabin: Piano works

This is the long-delayed final instalment of Ashkenazy's Scriabin cycle (Nos. 2, 7 and 10 are available on SXL6868, 9/78;...

Reviewed in issue 10/1987

Corelli in Concert

“Vittoria! Vittoria!” No wonder all the backroom boys and torture-chamber skivvies pile in during the course of that top note...

Reviewed in issue 4/1998

Vivaldi Cello Sonatas

Pleeth and Shepperd (CRD), using period instruments, are at present the only ones to offer all nine extant sonatas, a...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/1991

Emil von Sauer 1940 Live Recordings

These recordings were made when Sauer was in his late seventies, and the recently discovered solo works in particular reveal...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 5/1999

Tchaikovsky Orchestral Works

One of the recurring pleasures of the introduction of the Compact Disc is the unexpected appearance of rare repertoire—here for...

Reviewed in issue 7/1984

Ferguson & Finzi: Chamber Works

Here is an enterprising record (like most Hyperion issues) of music we ought to know better. Ferguson, 78 this year,...

Reviewed in issue 8/1986

Offenbach (La) Vie parisienne

Both these productions by Laurent Pelly of classic Offenbach opéras-bouffes are somewhat radical in their staging. Neither of them presents...

Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 6/2009

Vivaldi Concertos

Not even in 1978—the tercentenary year did the recording industry come close to putting all of Vivaldi's concertos into the...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 2/1988

Canciones and Ensaladas Spanish Renaissance Songs and Dances

Hard on the heels of the New London Consort’s disc dedicated to the ensaladas of Mateo Flecha (L’Oiseau-Lyre, 3/98) comes...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 4/1998

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