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Sacred Voices - Music of the Renaissance

A splendid recording debut for The New Company, a professional chamber choir of 12, directed by Harry Bicket, which is...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/1999

Come un'ombra di luna

If it is surprising that a female vocal ensemble specialising in contemporary music did not come about until 1986, there’s...

Reviewed in issue 6/2001

Enescu String Quartets

A curiosity in Enescu's output is the way that he sometimes bracketed under the same opus number works of the...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 6/1992

(The) Art of Chopin

“The Art of Chopin”, a two-disc film made by Gérald Caillat, makes a fascinating contribution to this year’s celebrations. Interspersing...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2010

Sure on this shining night

As a student, Robert White went one day in the late-1950s to sing for Virgil Thomson, in his famous apartment...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 7/1997

Marais Grand Ballet

Although it is not stated in the booklet‚ ‘Grand Ballet’ would seem to be from the soundtrack for ‘a film...

Reviewed in issue 10/2002

Liszt; Tchaikovsky Piano Concertos No 1

The photogenic 22-year-old German-Japanese pianist has won critical plaudits in these pages and elsewhere for her two earlier discs of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 13/2010

Brahms Works for Cello & Piano

This CD from the Norwegian cellist Truls Mork, winner of the 1983 Cassado Competition in Florence, was singled out for...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 8/1989

Klemperer conducts Rameau/Bach

I am delighted that EMI have reissued these recordings of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos and Orchestral Suites, for although the passage...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1992

Buxtehude Organ Works, Vol 5 - Opera Omnia X

This two-CD release concludes Ton Koopman’s complete survey of Buxtehude’s organ and harpsichord works, spread over five instalments. He plays...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 9/2009

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