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The Le Puy Manuscript

The Manuscrit du Puy opens a window upon the musical activities of the clergy of a great cathedral in central...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 5/1993

The Spirits of England and France - II

For the first time since his debut of Hildegard (Hyperion, 7/85), Christopher Page offers a disc devoted to monophonic song....

Reviewed in issue 8/1995

Tango Malambo

A pianist of fluent and cleanly percussive technique, with a lively sense of colour that she displays in Guastavino’s elaborate...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1998

Kabalevsky Colas Breugnon

The overture to Colas Breugnon has been much recorded, among others by Toscanini. The opera itself remains known more by...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/1993

Wolf Songs

It was the subtle, impassioned, often humorous verses of the Swabian pastor-poet Eduard Mörike that, early in 1888, released Wolf...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 2/2010

Paderewski Piano Works

It would be hard to imagine a more auspicious debut for Hyperion's series ''The Romantic Piano Concerto'' than Piers Lane's...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/1992

Flute Concertos of the Sans-Souci

It is a nice peg on which to hang a programme—that of music by an employer (Frederick the Great of...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 2/1995

Shostakovich Jazz Suites Nos 1 and 2

Shostakovich’s vaudeville vein may be worlds away from the great symphonies and string quartets‚ but it too can inspire controversy....

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 8/2002

Granados Goyescas

In this spacious live performance of Granados’s masterpiece, Block is concerned with sonority and with projecting and sustaining melodic lines;...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 11/1998

Gesualdo Madrigals

For this, their first foray into the schizophrenic world of Carlo Gesualdo's five-voice madrigals, Les Arts Florissants have selected their...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 10/1988

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