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Music for Two Flutes

A modest record of little-known music with f ew, if any, pretensions to greatness and played on 'contemporary' instruments. The...

Reviewed in issue 5/1984

Dvorák/Haydn Cello Concertos

It is sad that Jacqueline du Pre herself never heard these magnetic, uniquely intense readings with the extra immediacy of...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1988

Beethoven Explored, Vol 1

There must be many different ways of exploring Beethoven. Imaginative programming – putting Beethoven’s last violin and piano sonata together...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 10/2003

Corelli Trio Sonatas

The Aurora Ensemble, led by Enrico Garri, take Corelli very seriously. They play on period instruments with both warmth and...

Reviewed in issue 4/1991

Roussel Padmavati

Set in fourteenth-century Chitoor (which Roussel visited in 1909 sharing Ramsay Macdonald's elephant), Padmavati combines exotic indulgence with heroic astringency....

Reviewed in issue 9/1988

Glazunov; Khachaturian; Prokofiev Violin Concertos

I first heard Julia Fischer in 1995 as a 12-year-old in the Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition. Not only did she...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/2005

Heneghan Walking the Wild Rhondda; Lawson Celtic Fanfares

These performances were constructed, using samples and sequencers, from huge numbers of computer-stored digital recordings of every orchestral instrument’s complete...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 10/2003

Handel Orchestral Works

Readers acquainted with the Haydn symphonies recorded by this chamber orchestra will already know of its excellence. This new Handel...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1992

Fayrfax Sacred Choral Music

The third disc in The Cardinall’s Musick’s recording of the complete Fayrfax for ASV Gaudeamus is in many ways their...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 7/1997

Jenkins Consort Music

Jenkins is probably the finest English composer for instruments of the mid-seventeenth century, so this recording, which mixes stunning divisions...

Reviewed in issue 10/1999

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