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BRITTEN Songs & Proverbs of William Blake and other songs

Sternly, even fiercely standing its ground, the Blake cycle is one of Britten’s most unaccommodating works. Closest in its own...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/2010

Schubert Lieder

My notes on this marvellous issue are littered with amazed adjectives. Fassbaender's daring, all-in style precisely matched, indeed encouraged by...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1992

Turina Chamber Works

At the première in Paris of Joaquín Turina’s Piano Quintet‚ Isaac Albéniz‚ arriving late‚ asked the person next to him...

Reviewed in issue 10/2002

Brahms Symphony No 2; Haydn Variations

Boult conducts the first movement of the symphony at a fastish tempo, and takes the repeat. The playing is a...

Reviewed in issue 5/1989

Vaughan Williams/Elgar/Butterworth Songs

Yet another admirable British Composers collection. The Tear/Handley Elgar and Butterworth items (rarities all—these were, I believe, premiere recordings) were...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/1994

Bowles Songs and Chamber Works

This is the third collection of Paul Bowles’s music that I have heard in the past few months (see reviews...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1996

Tessarini Sonatas for Flute and Basso Continuo

Though using the exterior form of Corelli’s classic baroque sonata da camera form – alternating in tempo slow-fast, slow-fast –...

Reviewed by mquinn in issue: 2/1999

Chopin Mazurkas

With this four-CD set of the Nocturnes, Mazurkas and Scherzos Naxos completes its bargain reissue of Rubinstein’s 1932-39 HMV Chopin...

Reviewed in issue 6/2001

Schumann Piano Works

When a world-famous artist comes to record a very familiar piano work I think it right that a reviewer such...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 8/1988

Bach Cantatas, Vol 7

The two ongoing major series of Bach cantatas remind us that there is still much room for new, personal approaches...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 5/2009

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