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Charpentier, M-A Sacred Music, Vol 4

This is the fourth volume of Charpentier sacred music to have come from Le Concert Spirituel, and appears after a...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 8/2000

Beethoven Symphony 5; Leonora Overtures

A solidly played, warm-toned account of the Fifth Symphony will probably excite someone unfamiliar with the music but it can...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/1990

Schumann, C and R Lieder

Schumann’s songs are surely performed now more frequently than at any period in the past. At the same time has...

Reviewed in issue 5/2002

Passacaglia

Regent Records have the happy knack of making fine recordings of instruments that are slightly off the beaten track but...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 1/2010

Offenbach Le vie parisienne

As the author of the notes accompanying this recording points out, it is no mean achievement for a show that...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 1/1987

String Quartets

I'm not quite sure what cover design I'd have chosen for this collection. A Raphael drawing, to suggest the conservatism...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1993

Schubert Winterreise

This is a decidedly offbeat issue. In addition to an absorbing interpretation of Winterreise, which comprises the second CD, we...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1992

Bach & Mozart: Violin Concertos

The Polish-born Huberman was 51 years old when he recorded these concertos in two days in June 1934. His style...

Reviewed in issue 8/1989

The Singing Club

This is not the Hilliard Ensemble's first record of part-songs, catches and glees. Unlike its two predecessors (Meridian E77002, 6/78...

Reviewed in issue 9/1985

Mahler Symphony No 8

Sir Colin Davis may not be an instinctive Mahlerian like Leonard Bernstein or Klaus Tennstedt but he is usually at...

Reviewed in issue 6/1997

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