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Britten in rehearsal and performance

A complete performance of Pears and Britten interpreting a work by the latter written for the former is a valuable...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/2004

Rameau: Secular Cantatas

A warm welcome to this anthology of Rameau's chamber cantatas. The original two-record album was issued early in 1985 and...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1986

Cartellieri Concertos

Born in 1772 in a city part German, part Polish, and of an Italian father, Antonio Casimir Cartellieri worked chiefly...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 7/2000

20th Century Flute Works

No woodwind instrument has a large solo repertory, but the flute has been better served than most, and several recitals...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 11/1991

Stravinsky Works for Solo Piano-Martin Jones

The completist in me recalls that there are authentic piano transcriptions of the Petrushka, The Rite of Spring and Firebird...

Reviewed in issue 2/1998

Grandes Pièces Symphoniques

This is a wonderfully wholesome meal of somewhat neglected organ music composed by five of the most important French mâitres....

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2007

Brahms Symphony No 4; Haydn Variations

There is a little more separation of timbre in the sound of Haitink's new Brahms Fourth and Haydn Variations than...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/1994

Wellesz Symphonies Nos 3 and 5

Begun in spring 1949, the Third Symphony cost Wellesz unusual effort: it was not until autumn 1951 that he completed...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 13/2005

Finzi Earth and Air and Rain

Gerald Finzi's obsession with the poetry of Thomas Hardy led to one of the most important contributions to the twentieth-century...

Reviewed in issue 3/1990

Machaidze Romantic Arias

“I didn’t know that Angelina Jolie could sing!” remarked an ironic blogger in one of several YouTube videos of Georgian...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 13/2011

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