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Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos 3 & 4

Authentic performing styles are one thing, authentic recordings quite another. For the Lubin/Hogwood versions, Decca have achieved a balance that...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 11/1989

Field Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 3

I started listening to this recording determined to suppress my dislike of the fortepiano, and it is a measure of...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 6/2000

Strauss Arabella

This competently sung, played and conducted performance, taken live during a tour of the work by a German company in...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1999

Cimarosa (Il) Matrimonio segreto

When, a few years ago, Gramophone reviewers were invited to nominate a work they would like to see reissued on...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1993

Boesset Airs de cour

‘Jamais deux sans trois’, say the French. Fittingly, then, this CD completes a trilogy devoted to the airs de cour...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2004

Porpora from 12 Cantatas to His Royal Highness Frederick Prince of Wales (London, 1735)

Between 1733 and 1736 Porpora was the music director of the Opera of the Nobility, a company set up by...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2011

Campion Songs for Lute & Voice

About eight years ago I commented on the rarity of all-Campion discs; the only one to have been issued since...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 10/1999

Diepenbrock Orchestral and Vocal Works

Here is further proof that Alphons Diepenbrock (1862-1921) was a composer of real and striking gifts. He was, first and...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1996

Scriabin Prometheus. Stravinsky Firebird

A provocative pairing: given Stravinsky’s place as the high priest of modernism in the first half of our century, a...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/1998

Xenakis Aïs; Tracées; Empreintes; Noomena; Roáï

Xenakis made use of the resources of the expanded modern orchestra throughout his composing career‚ so it is good that...

Reviewed in issue 13/2001

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