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Alma Brasileira

Too long absent from the studios, Cristina Ortiz returns with a heady brew from what the booklet-note so aptly calls...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2006

Martinu Cello Sonatas Nos 1-3

Although he wrote a good number of works for the cello throughout his career, Martinu’s three numbered sonatas date from...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 13/2008

A. Scarlatti Cantatas, Volume 3

The virtually untapped gold mine of Alessandro Scarlatti's cantatas - there are more than 600, of which only a handful...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/2000

Hume Musicall Humors

Tobias Hume (c1570-1645) was a professional soldier and a ‘gentleman’ (read amateur) composer, and virtuoso of the bass viol. His...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 12/2004

Previn (A) Streetcar Named Desire (DVD)

The success of André Previn’s first opera has been remarkable‚ and I can remember few things like it in the...

Reviewed in issue 13/2001

Liszt Various Piano Works

What’s with this goth-outfitted pianist sporting unruly hair, seated at a concert grand in the forest, with a swan to...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 9/2011

Gál String Quartets Nos 1 and 4; Mozart Variations

When I wrote about Leon McCawley’s superb set of Hans Gál’s piano music (11/05) I remarked that the four Gál...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 13/2007

Monteverdi Balli and Dramatic Madrigals

The four works on this disc come from Monteverdi's Eighth Book of Madrigals—his Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi (''Warlike and Amorous...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 9/1992

Orchestral works by Holst and Warlock

Holst placed his Suite de ballet firmly among his self-styled ''Early Horrors'', and Imogen Holst duly flinched at ''the banality...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1985

Berlioz Lélio, ou Le Retour à la vie

Lélio, Berlioz’s dramatic sequel to the Symphonie fantastique, is never going to command wide popularity, but it is well worth...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/2007

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