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Britten Complete Folksong Arrangements

It was an excellent idea of the ever-adventurous Hyperion to give us a complete edition of Britten's Folk Song Arrangements...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1995

Hilliard Live - Dufay

More than ten years after their very fine recording of the Missa L’homme arme (and assorted motets) under Paul Hillier...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/1998

Schumann String Quartet

If I could play the piano like Marc-André Hamelin, I’d want to blare out my virtuosity at every opportunity. That...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2009

Couperin Leçons de ténebre

Couperin's superb settings for solo voices and continuo of the sombre Tenebrae lessons for the Wednesday of Holy Week, composed...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 4/2000

Poulenc Choral Works

Poulenc’s choral music is particularly treacherous territory. One moment you’re singing what sounds like Janequin or Passereau, the next you’re...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Brahms Complete Symphonies

No great musician of the past has benefited more from the current flood of live recordings than Toscanini. Comparing these...

Reviewed in issue 2/1998

Bach Phoebus and Pan: Secular Cantatas

Three of Bach’s most extended secular cantatas are featured on this release. All of them are Leipzig pieces, the earliest...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1996

Granados Goyescas

The Tunisian pianist Jean-Marc Luisada has imagination, extremely nimble fingers that enable him to bring clarity and just balance even...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1992

The Sun King's Paradise

The Palladian Ensemble has not shown much interest in French music hitherto, perhaps because it is repertoire which can be...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 3/2000

Janequin An Orchard of Music

Whenever an ensemble becomes particularly associated with a composer or genre, fresh recordings from other groups are inevitably greeted with...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 6/1996

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