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18th Century French Cantatas

This is the soprano Julianne Baird's second disc of French baroque cantatas. Her first contained three works by the greatest...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1992

Turina Piano Works

After Mompou, Jordi Masó continues with Turina, a more extensive and elaborate, if less interior, challenge. Turina, by his own...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2005

Juan Diego Flórez

In timbre and technique no more brilliant tenor than Flórez is to be heard on record. But brilliance is not...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 4/2007

Saint-Saëns Piano Trios Nos 1 and 2

As an admirer not only of Saint-Saëns’s chamber music but also of the Wanderer Trio’s previous releases, especially their Haydn...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 10/2005

Bizet: Solo piano works

These two discs include every original work Bizet wrote for solo piano—even three very early juvenilia (only recently discovered in...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1985

As I went to Walsingham

''To the musicians of Swanne Alley for many times playing with their instruments before my master and mistress, 6s. 8d.'':...

Reviewed in issue 2/1988

Mozart Piano Concertos Nos 23 & 24

Should economics dictate a one-disc Ninth for the collection, the field is narrow but strong. Rudolf Barshai's version is a...

Reviewed in issue 6/1994

Caplet Sacred Songs

Andre Caplet earned a considerable reputation as a conductor in his lifetime, but his ghost must be beaming at the...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 9/1993

Poulenc Choral Works

Poulenc's sacred a cappella choral music has fared well on CD. Two excellent versions have remained unsurpassed for several years...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 6/1994

Elgar (The) Spanish Lady Suite & other orchestral works

Douglas Bostock and the Munich Symphony Orchestra follow up their series of British rarities with this Elgar collection, bringing together...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/2000

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