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Beethoven; Schubert Piano Sonatas

Solomon, the greatest pianist the UK has produced by a long chalk, recorded fairly regularly from 1941 until the end...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 12/2002

Purcell Theatre Music, Vol 1

Purcell’s theatre music has not received a complete survey since Christopher Hogwood’s pioneering set from the 1970s and ’80s, and...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 5/2008

Victoria de los Angeles sings Spanish Songs

This is a disc that barely needs any recommendation from a reviewer, especially at medium price. Three years after making...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1992

Mozart Night Music

The chief delight in this first offering from The English Concert under its new director, Andrew Manze, is the performance...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 10/2003

Byrd Gradualia (excs)

In a fine extended introductory essay Michael Noone suggests that Byrd’s Gradualia stand out in his output, on account of...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 7/2009

Callas

Tony Palmer’s video biography of Callas was made in VHS form a couple of years after her death. It now...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/2007

Gounod Faust

Let me say at the outset that this is the most satisfying performance of Gounod's favourite opera yet to appear...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1987

Anglebert Harpsichord Works and Airs after Lully

This two-CD set includes performances of both Lully’s original opera orchestra music and Anglebert’s harpsichord transcriptions. To them, Céline Frisch...

Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 11/2005

Ninon Vallin recital

On that proverbial desert island, one would indubitably wish to have at least one record by Ninon Vallin, and what...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1986

American Chamber Works

George Rochberg created quite a scandal when he moved away from writing serial music in the late-1960s to return towards...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 7/1991

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