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Waxman Goyana

The main news here is the first recording of Waxman’s Auld Lang Syne Variations – I imagine this will feature...

Reviewed in issue 8/1999

Mozart/R. Strauss Horn Concertos

These are expert performances of extrovert music. Radovan Vlatkovic is an accomplished soloist, and Jeffrey Tate and the English Chamber...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 10/1994

Bruckner Symphony No 5

It is not unusual to hear the music of composers of the Baroque period being subjected to what in literary...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/2010

A Hilliard Songbook-New Music for Voices

The Hilliard Ensemble have always had an interest in commissioning and performing works by living composers, but apart from a...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 1/1997

Beethoven Fidelio

Hamburg’s archive of early TV recordings has yielded up stronger productions of 20th-century work (the Wozzeck, Globolinks and Devils of...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 9/2007

Cornysh/Prentes/Turges Sacred Choral Works

The Cardinall’s Musick have gone from strength to strength in recent recordings. Successive releases have brought increased solidity and breadth,...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 9/1997

Francesco Corbetta - (A) guitarist from Pavia across Europe

After having heard the guitarist Francesco Corbetta (1615-81), who was then in the service of Charles II, Samuel Pepys noted...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 3/2007

Poulenc Mélodies

These two performers won the Francis Poulenc Prize in the Paris International Song Competition in 1999. Among their many virtues...

Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 11/2002

Carissimi (4) Oratorios

Giacomo Carissimi (1605-74) spent almost his entire life near or in Rome and pioneered the genre of sacred music drama...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2010

Gluck Orphée et Eurydice

Orphée et Eurydice is performed in the arrangement that Berlioz made in 1859 for the French mezzo-soprano Pauline Viardot. He...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 6/2009

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