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Franck Organ Works

This ‘spiritual journey’ could not be piloted by a more sympathetic guide than Olivier Latry, titulaire at Notre-Dame, Paris. He...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 12/2005

Aciz & Galathea

During the first half of the 17th century the Spanish zarzuela, a play with a mixture of spoken and sung...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Bartók Concerto for Orchestra; The Miraculous Mandarin

No one dispenses musical decadence as exquisitely as Riccardo Chailly. In The Miraculous Mandarin‚ at the point where the hapless...

Reviewed in issue 1/2002

Handel Trio Sonatas, Op 2

It has taken the tercentenary year (and the anticipation of it) to repair the nelgect of these works on record—from...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 1/1986

Du Mont Motets en dialogue

Henry Du Mont was an organist and composer who held a succession of important court appointments in France during the...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 9/1993

Liszt Années de pèlerinage - Suisse

It’s clear that Stephen Hough has technically and spiritually digested the first book of Années de pèlerinage to the extent...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 13/2005

McEwen String Quartets Volume 2

This is the fourth disc in Chandos’s enterprising series devoted to Sir John Blackwood McEwen’s chamber and instrumental music. A...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2003

Lieder and Song Recital

Sometimes a recording comes along that puts in the shade all recent listening. Such a one is Schreier's latest account...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1990

Forqueray Pièces de clavecin

The harpsichord transcriptions of the Forquerays' pieces de viole are always immediately recognizable by their low tessitura and dense textures,...

Reviewed in issue 5/1994

Mozart Works for Flute & Orchestra

An exquisite work composed when Mozart was in Paris in the late 1770s, the Concerto for flute and harp is...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1989

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