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Handel Vocal Duets

Considering what beguiling and inventive pieces they are, and the scope they offer for vocal artistry, Handel’s duets have not...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 12/1997

Puccini Tosca

Coming to this historic video recording after Muti’s La Scala version (see above) is to register a quite different operatic...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/2003

Fiocco Missa Solemnis

Joseph Hector Fiocco, known to many would-be pianists and violinists (and their parents) for a charming little Allegro, was a...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/2003

Nielsen Songs

Here is something truly exceptional: something to gladden the heart of Nielsen-lovers who have been looking for a single-disc survey...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2003

Rutter Requiem

With many years' university chapel experience behind him, John Rutter should be well attuned to the ecclesiastical style; and this...

Reviewed in issue 11/1986

Missa Nigra sum: Mass and motets

The Song of Songs was a happy hunting ground for composers of the baroque, who found its erotic atmosphere so...

Reviewed in issue 4/1983

Scarlatti Sonatas

The enjoyment afforded by almost any collection of Scarlatti sonatas is here compounded by the splendidly meaty and mordant sound...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 9/1989

Mozart Keyboard Sonatas, Vol.1

With Mozart's piano concertos and piano and violin sonatas behind him—the latter not, regrettably, available in this country—Malcolm Bilson now...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 12/1989

Schnittke Symphony No 0; Nagasaki

As Symphony No 0s go, Alfred Schnittke’s student piece really isn’t bad. A substantial four-movement work that’s not short on...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 13/2007

Kurt Weill The Threepenny Opera

Between them these three CDs provide a fascinating view of the variety of styles in which Kurt Weill's music was...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 6/1991

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