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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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