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Beethoven Music for cello

This second record in Christophe Coin's and Patrick Cohen's Beethoven series seems to me even more compelling than the first...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 9/1987

Bizet Songs

Have we had a Bizet song recital – all-Bizet, that is – on CD before? A group here and there...

Reviewed in issue 4/1998

Vivaldi L'estro armonico, Op. 3

Vivaldi's L'estro armonico, the first and in many ways the most diverse of his printed sets of concertos, was dedicated...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1988

Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1

Tchaikovsky’s First Concerto and the Mussorgsky Pictures (opposite poles of Russian greatness) were two mainstays of the mercurial, much-missed wizard...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/2005

Scarlatti,A Davidis pugna et victoria

Davidis pugna et victoria is the only one of Alessandro Scarlatti’s Latin oratorios now extant. As Carrie Churnside explains in...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2009

Campo Violin Concerto; Kinderball; Livres de Sonates; Rondo

Never heard of Regis Campo (b.1968) ? Neither had I, but on the evidence of this disc I'm eager to...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 1/2000

Grandi Motets for Five Voices

Like the fools in the poem by Goldsmith, I came to scoff and remain’d – well, not to pray, but...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 2/2008

John Harle's Saxophone

From Bizet’s L’arlésienne on, French composers adopted the timbre of the saxophone naturally as yet another orchestral colour. British composers...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 13/2004

Bowen Piano Music, Vol 2

Joop Celis’s second volume in his cycle of York Bowen’s piano music is as triumphant as his first (5/05). The...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/2007

Bartók Orchestral & Vocal Works

A disc to rank alongside other Chicago Bartok classics, such as Dorati's mono The miraculous mandarin Suite (Mercury, 2/55—nla) and...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 3/1993

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