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Review of Vesselina Kasarova - Sento Brillar

Vesselina Kasarova - Sento Brillar

Vesselina Kasarova bases her recital of Handel arias on music sung by the brilliant castrato Giovanni Carestini (who was regarded...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2008

Review of Falla Ballet music

Falla Ballet music

These are not the most earthily robust accounts of these two ballet scores on record, nor the most physically exciting,...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1987

Review of Leoncavallo I Pagliacci

Leoncavallo I Pagliacci

Strange are the ways of record companies. They secure the world's most famous Italian tenor for his first recording of...

Reviewed in issue 5/1990

Review of Roxburgh Clarinet Concerto; Saturn

Roxburgh Clarinet Concerto; Saturn

Although Montage was a notable success at the 1977 Proms, Edwin Roxburgh is as well known as a composition teacher...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 9/2006

Review of Seta Tanyel plays Chopin

Seta Tanyel plays Chopin

Nothing in this discerningly planned Chopin recital is more enjoyable than the B flat minor Sonata. There is that essential...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 12/1991

Review of Paganini & Vieuxtemps Violin Concertos

Paganini & Vieuxtemps Violin Concertos

What do you think Paganini, whose unprecedented virtuosity sent the musical world into a frenzy and persuaded the simple-minded that...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1989

Review of Staud Works

Staud Works

On reading Carsten Fastner’s profile of a composer who ‘consistently repudiates [the] complacent eclecticism which several of his colleagues use...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 10/2004

Review of Bach Organ Sonatas

Bach Organ Sonatas

Notwithstanding the uncertainty over the origins of Bach's Trio Sonatas for organ (and Peter Williams discusses this in his typically...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/1990

Review of Dufay Secular Music

Dufay Secular Music

This recording first appeared 17 years ago, and the passage of time hasn’t diminished the grandeur of the achievement of...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/1997

Review of Hindemith Violin Concerto; Symphony

Hindemith Violin Concerto; Symphony

I have never understood why Hindemith's Violin Concerto—that in C sharp written in 1939 rather than the 1925 Kammermusik No....

Reviewed in issue 4/1995


 

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