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Pierre de Manchicourt Sacred Choral Works

Paul van Nevel has done it again. Whether it is Gombert (Sony, 4/93) or Brumel (5/91), Gallus or Pipelare (10/96),...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Bizet Te Deum

This is a disc guaranteed to delight anyone who has ever responded to the youthful sparkle of Bizet’s Symphony in...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/2011

Beethoven Symphony No 3; Schubert Symphony No 8

Julian Steckel, winner of many prizes, has studied under Heinrich Schiff, among others, and has also been principal cellist of...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/2011

Peter Anders - Arias and Songs

At Beecham’s famous 1951 Covent Garden Meistersinger, Anders was the unforgettable Walther: at least after all these years I haven’t...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/2003

Sibelius Orchestral Works

So far no one has coupled Pelleas and Swanwhite together; in fact there is at present only one alternative account...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 7/1989

Frankel Symphonies Nos. 7 and 8; Ceremony and A Shakespeare Overtures

The years 1957 to ’73‚ the last of Benjamin Frankel’s life‚ were the most productive of ‘serious’ music (his output...

Reviewed in issue 1/2002

Prokofiev Symphonies Nos. 1 & 5

Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony is one of those works which has always been lucky on the gramophone. It has rarely been...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 6/1990

Bach Cantatas No 113, 179 and 199

This disc‚ offering not just three Bach cantatas complete‚ but an hour­long feature film‚ revealingly celebrates the unique pilgrimage undertaken...

Reviewed in issue 1/2002

Beethoven Symphonies Nos 5 & 7

The results are impressive. The music is taken consistently up to speed, driven strongly but by no means inflexibly along,...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/2000

Romantic Christmas Songs

The title may be misleading, and very glad I am to have found it so. ‘Romantic’ here does not mean...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/2002

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