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Bach St. John Passion

Except that he uses sopranos rather than trebles, Gardiner has adopted an 'authentic' approach to this performance of the St...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 2/1987

Mascagni L'Amico Fritz

L’amico Fritz, Mascagni’s second opera, was intended to complement Cavalleria rusticana. That was bloody melodrama; this would be lyrical comedy....

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/2009

Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 3, 8 & 15

The Pastoral Sonata leads off Angela Hewitt’s second Beethoven sonata cycle instalment, and she taps into the music’s overall geniality...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 6/2007

Purcell (The) Fairy Queen

For an opera that isn’t really an opera, recording has been especially favourable in projecting Purcell’s own magical ‘tableaux’ on...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 8/2005

Chausson Poème; Symphony Op.20 etc

In performing Chausson’s music, texture is often a problem. As a pupil of Franck and an admirer of Wagner he...

Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 7/2000

Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet Suite

A carefully prepared performance and thoroughly attentive to details of dynamic markings and phrasing, but symphonic rather than balletic in...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 7/1983

Popular Orchestral Works

It seems extraordinary that Vaughan Williams's Tallis Fantasia should receive its Compact Disc Debut in St Louis. But this is...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1983

Ravel Cantates de Rome

Ravel used to say it was useful for apprentice composers to copy their predecessors and that, if they possessed any...

Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 4/2001

Telemann Overture-Suites

Nicholas Ward and the Manchester-based Northern Chamber Orchestra perform three particularly attractive orchestral suites from an almost daunting legacy of...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1999

Leo/Pergolesi Salve Reginas

An interesting idea, to compare settings of the compline's Marian antiphon by two composers of much the same period, both...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1994

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