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Bach Lute Works, Vol. 1

Whether or not Bach intended these works to be played on the lute is a question that need not detain...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 3/1991

Willard White - (The) Paul Robeson Legacy

Though it evokes the mighty dead, let it stand now. The songs run the range from passionate intensity (Go down,...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 6/2004

Beethoven String Quartets

As anyone who has heard them in the flesh will testify, the Borodin Quartet produces a particularly sumptuous sonority, refined...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 4/1990

Franck Organ Music

This is as faithful a piece of authenticity as you can get. The 1889 Cavaille-Coll organ, which spoke characteristically enough...

Reviewed in issue 10/1985

Tippett Vision of St Augustine/Triple Concerto

Turn up Gramophone for April 1972 and you’ll find a striking cover montage announcing the first recording of...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/1997

Shostakovich The Execution of Stepan Razin; Two Fabelsafter Krylov

Since the classic Kyrill Kondrashin account (Melodiya, 1/69) continues its purgatorial wait for reincarnation, the field is still wide open...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/1999

Haydn Die Jahreszeiten

Die Jahreszeiten, admitted Haydn, was no second Schopfung. If Die Schopfung was a hard act for even the composer to...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 2/1988

Monteverdi Solos and Duets

Regular readers will recall that for some time I have been quietly praying for another record of Emma Kirkby singing...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 4/1988

Bach Goldberg Variations; Sweelinck Fantasia

I seem to have heard so many different versions of the Goldberg Variations just lately that I am in danger...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 5/1990

Maxwell Davies Vocal Works

Black Pentecost (1979) has a clear point to make. The old Orkney ways—and perhaps the islands themselves—are under threat from...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 8/1993

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