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Meyerbeer Semiramide

Metastasio’s libretto Semiramide riconosciuta was first set in 1729 by Leonardo Vinci. Thirty other composers had used it by the...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 13/2006

Conti David

Florentine musician Francesco Bartolomeo Conti (1682-1732) was the finest theorbo player in early 18th-century Europe, and spent almost his entire...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2007

Glazunov Symphonies Nos 5 & 7

How one sympathises with Boris Asafyev – the Mr Big of Soviet musicology from the 1920s to the 1940s –...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 13/2004

Locatelli Sonatas, Op. 5

Musica ad Rhenum are making a name for themselves by recording, stylishly and with panache, music of mainstream baroque composers....

Reviewed in issue 7/1996

Verdi Ballet Music

The convention which insisted that works performed at the Paris Opera must have an interpolated ballet—however inappropriate to the plot—to...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/1990

Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Alfred Brendel II

List-making, of which Great Pianists of the 20th Century is an impressive example, is proving to be one of the...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/1999

Holten Wisdom and Folly, and other Choral Works

Bo Holten has written a substantial corpus of choral music but, as he observes in his notes to the recording,...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 10/2005

Toward the Margins Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble

This music is essentially a fairly careful interpenetration of electro-acoustic music and the European school of free improvisation. In the...

Reviewed by rthomas in issue: 13/1997

Seventeenth Century Orchestral Suites

Some new mid-seventeenth-century names to absorb. Of these, only Guillaume Dumanoir is at all familiar, even to specialists in the...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 3/1998

Mozart Orchestral Works

The main item here is the large-scale Serenade K204, one of a series of festive D major works Mozart composed...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 5/1992

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