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Duetti da Camera

Thirteen years on, this rewarding selection of seventeenth-century Italian songs still sounds as fresh and appealing as when it was...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 8/1994

Scarlatti Keyboard Sonatas

Musical scholars like Ralph Kirkpatrick, whose classic book on Scarlatti is here quoted at length (though without acknowledging the source),...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 2/1992

Couperin (3) Leçons de Ténèbres; Lalande Psalm 50

This isn’t quite the usual season for leçons de ténèbres, but here we have two versions of Couperin’s surviving settings,...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 13/2003

R. Strauss (Die) Frau ohne Schatten

This was the last work Karajan conducted and produced during his controversial seven-year period in charge of the State Opera....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1998

Elgar Great is the Lord; They are at rest

This is a fine disc but it is up against a still finer one. The Choir of St John’s College,...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 4/2007

Franck Piano Works

Though described as ''the senior Canadian-born pianist concertizing nationally and internationally on a regular basis'', Robert Silverman had not come...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1994

Strauss, R (Der) Rosenkavalier

This live performance was recorded at the Salzburg Festival in 2004. The production by Robert Carsen, updated to the period...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 9/2010

Great European Organs, No.46

The focus of attention here is very much the instrument itself. And what an organ! The older brother (by ten...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 8/1998

Handel Violin Sonatas

Hiro Kurosaki brings a powerful technique and a good sense of musical character to Handel’s violin sonatas. In the first...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 4/2003

Renata Scotto The French Album 2

Scotto has never been content with just touting a few roles round from centre to centre. She has responded to...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1990

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