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Mendelssohn Works for Clarinet, Basset Horn and Piano

There is a great deal of Mendelssohn still to be explored, and this record charmingly mixes familiar and unfamiliar, in...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/1990

Victoria Second Vespers of the Feast of the Annuciation

For whatever reason, Victoria’s polychoral music hasn’t attracted the attention of many recording ensembles. Though both of these new recordings...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 2/2005

Vivaldi String Concertos

Recordings of four of these six concertos by I Musici were included in the mammoth tercentenary Philips LP Vivaldi Edition...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 5/1989

Schubert Piano Sonata, D960; Fantasy, D760

Schubert at his most philosphical and Schubert at his most virtuosic is hardly a combination to be taken at a...

Reviewed in issue 8/1987

Hovhaness Symphony No 63; Guitar Concerto No 2

Following guitarist David Leisner’s superb account of Alan Hovhaness’s First Guitar Concerto, also for Naxos, comes an equally fine recording...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 9/2008

Onslow String Quartets Nos 28-30

The Anglo-French gentleman composer George Onslow (1784-1853) was a keen chamber music enthusiast, writing 36 string quartets and a similar...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 8/2010

In Praise of Woman

Hyperion have come up trumps again with another delightful disc of out-of-the-way music. The brainchild of Graham Johnson, it is...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1994

Great European Organs, No.41

Two widely held misconceptions about Paul de Malengreau (1887-1959) are dispelled here: first we learn that he was French rather...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 2/1996

Dowland Earth Water, Air & Fire

This is a fascinating record, not least because one may very well be inclined to take against it from the...

Reviewed in issue 5/1999

M. Couperin Livre de Tablature de Clavescin

Yes, yet another Couperin! Marc Roger Normand, a little-known first cousin of Francois le Grand (who refers to him in...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1999

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