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Blackwood & Bridge Cello Sonatas

Easley Blackwood's Cello Sonata dates from 1985, and is one of five works written during the past decade in which...

Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 11/1992

Bach Cantatas, Vol 36

After the four fine cantatas set to libretti by Leipzig poet Marianne von Ziegler in Vol 35, the rich vein...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 3/2008

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra - About Baroque

The phenomenon of early instruments being used by contemporary composers is familiar enough, but a period orchestra? Supported by the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 4/2007

Boccherini Symphonies

This very welcome set brings Boccherini the symphonist back to the catalogue. Boccherini the symphonist?—well, he was not a symphonist...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/1986

Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras - excs

Isaac Karabtchevsky’s recordings of the nine Bachianas (not complete as they excluded the piano and vocal originals of Nos 4...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 9/2007

Renaissance Masterpieces

Roughly 150 years separate Ockeghem's Intemerata Dei mater and Joao IV of Portugal's Crux fidelis. This sample of renaissance motets...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 3/1995

Bartók The Wooden Prince

Bartok’s ‘dance pantomime’ The Wooden Prince is a fascinating score: fascinating for its resonances of his other two stage works...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/1997

Mozart Mass, K427

William Christie's reading of Mozart's great unfinished Mass, sharply etched and urgently paced, is in many ways compelling. At just...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 2/2000

Chopin Preludes, 1-24; Nocturnes - excerpts

Bolet has formidable competition here from a number of artists including the impetuous Argerich (DG), the more temperate, thoughtfully musical...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 11/1988

Bach Cantatas; Handel Airs

Of the many recent Vanguard reissues this one is, both musically and historically, perhaps the most remarkable. Not only does...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1995

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