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Monteverdi Madrigals, Book 5

In his Fifth Book of Madrigals, Monteverdi gradually detaches himself (regretfully?) from the world of its predecessor, published only two...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 2/2008

Kodály & Prokofiev Orchestral works

It was a bright idea of someone's to couple together two popular suites about heroes of whom one was bogus...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1985

Handl Lamentations of Jeremiah

Jacob Handl, or Gallus (the Latin equivalent of Handl, which means rooster), after a time assimilating the ever-conflating styles of...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/1997

Vaughan Williams Symphonies 2 & 8

Inscribed to ‘Glorious John with love and admiration from Ralph’‚ Vaughan Williams’s Eighth Symphony received its first play­through in Manchester’s...

Reviewed in issue 9/2001

Bach Violin Concertos

Shumsky touches these works with the affection and understanding of one who has had a long love-affair with them, one...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 9/1992

Chopin Piano Concerto No 2; Piano Works

Rubinstein remains the most elegant and life-affirming of all great Chopin pianists, his patrician ease and stylistic distinction the envy...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2002

Bartók & Moret Violin Concertos

To recapitulate: ES made a direct comparison of Midori (Sony Classical) and Chung (Decca, a re-release of a 1978 original...

Reviewed in issue 11/1991

Mozart Mass No 4; Benedictus

Here, perhaps surprisingly, comes yet a third version of Mozart's Waisenhausmesse, or ''Orphanage Mass'', so called because it is thought...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/1990

Gesualdo Madrigals, Book 5

With their two latest discs, the Kassiopeia Quintet conclude a valuable intégrale of the notorious Prince of Venosa’s madrigals. If...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 9/2009

Schubert Symphonies Nos 1 & 4

This period performance of two early Schubert symphonies—the more ambitious C minor work, the Tragic, as well as No. 1—boasts...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1990

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