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Honegger Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher

Honegger's 'dramatic oratorio' Jeanne d'Arc au bucher used to be better known than it is today, and there are reasons...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 12/1993

Byrd: Sacred Choral Works

Byrd's Latin motets and English anthems (around 200 works in all) form, to quote Rutter's excellently thorough annotation, ''the larger...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 4/1990

Dallapiccola Orchestral Works Vol. 2

It is five years since Chandos issued Volume 1 of their Dallapiccola series but the wait has been well worthwhile....

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 5/2010

Rachmaninov Piano Trios

The piano dominates in both scores and one can scarcely complain if it does so in the recording. There were...

Reviewed in issue 3/1985

Harp Music of France

Perhaps harpists make the best composers for the harp; or perhaps they just have the knack of writing the music...

Reviewed in issue 7/1985

Campra Idoménée

Andre Campra was one of the leading figures on the French musical stage between Lully's death in 1687 and Rameau's...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1992

Lyatoshynsky Symphonies Nos 2 and 3

Boris Lyatoshinsky, who died aged 73 in 1968, was one of the most distinguished Ukrainian composers of his time, and...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1994

Joby Talbot Once Around the Sun; (3) Billiardman Pieces

My previous encounter with Joby Talbot (b1971) left me impressed by his accomplished scoring and effective use of economical forces,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 8/2005

Brahms: Lieder Recital

This comes from the the 10 - LP Brahms Edition Lieder set which Jessye Norman originally shared with Fischer-Dieskau. She...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1985

Bach Cantatas, Vol 4

As the longest season in the liturgical calendar, Trinity is represented by the largest corpus from within Bach’s cantata oeuvre,...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2009

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