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Vierne & Duruflé Organ music

Last year marked the 50th anniversary of the deaths of Vierne and Widor, pupil and long-lived master. In that half-century...

Reviewed by faprahamian in issue: 12/1988

Italian Opera Arias

Here comes the new tenor on the block. Rolando Villazón’s first disc on Virgin Classics turned up only a day...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 4/2004

Debussy Nocturnes

No one could sensibly expect a French sound from these forces, and on their own terms they produce much that...

Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 4/2003

Works by Bax, Bridge and Britten

Bridge's four-movement suite evokes not only contrasting ''sea-images'', as he himself described them, but also the atmosphere of pre-First World...

Reviewed in issue 12/1986

Mozart Piano Concertos 24 & 27 (fortepiano)

For this, the last disc in their complete recording of Mozart's piano concertos, Malcolm Bilson and John Eliot Gardiner have...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/1990

Bartók Divertimento; Music for S, P & C

These compositions—two of the finest from the last decade of Bartok's life—make an obvious pair, but this is the first...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/1984

CPE Bach Flute Concertos

The London-based Feinstein Ensemble perform in period style on modern instruments. After 10 years together, flautist and conductor Martin Feinstein...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 3/2001

Taneyev Piano Trio

Taneyev's Piano Trio deserves to be much better known, and it is to be hoped that this fine recording will...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/1989

Victoria Lamentations

Victoria’s Lamentations were published in 1585, in a volume that contained the Responsories and other pieces for Holy Week. Composed...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 5/2010

Alessandro Ziliani (1906-77)

The thrill of a true Italian tenor, once commonplace, now almost a rarity: Ziliani, a romantic lyric tenor, a lighter...

Reviewed in issue 11/1998

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