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Rubbra Orchestral Works

There is nothing remotely 'contemporary' about Edmund Rubbra's symphonies, and I can remember how baffled Scandinavian friends were in the...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 11/1990

Carnival of The Animals

It’s unlikely that Jeremy Nicholas’s eruditely witty and elegant new verses for The Carnival of the Animals will supplant the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 4/2008

Chopin Nocturnes, Vol. 1

Immaculately polished jewels of reflective lyricism and poetic evocation, Chopin’s Nocturnes are among his most personal creations. They make particular...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 5/1998

Bach (The) Art of Fugue

The booklet-notes harpsichordist Sergio Vartolo provides for his Art of Fugue recording address the work’s etymology in painstaking detail, followed...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 1/2010

Mozart Flute Concertos; Flute Sonatas

The performances of the two concertos, first issued 16 years ago, now seem rather dated: they are very plain readings,...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 6/2004

Tom Kerstens - Standing Wave

BGS records is the not-for-profit label of the International Guitar Foundation, an educational charity. I’m afraid I’m not going to...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 13/2004

Chausson Chamber, Orchestra & Vocal Works

Chausson's beautiful song Chanson perpetuelle is unusually scored for soprano soloist, piano and string quartet. Andree Esposito sings out strongly,...

Reviewed in issue 4/1993

Haydn String Quartets

Initially‚ I felt slightly irritated by the self­important title – The Haydn Project – given to this selection of comparatively...

Reviewed in issue 12/2001

Brass at La Sauve-Majeure

The eleventh-century abbey of La Sauve-Majeure, a small village outside Bordeaux, is unfortunately in ruins; but the village church, also...

Reviewed in issue 9/1989

Forqueray Pièces de clavecin

Anniversaries provide valuable lifelines for concert promoters and record producers stuck for new ideas: they also serve to bring to...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 2/1996

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