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Tchaikovsky Songs, Vol 1

If all the items in this recital were as effectively sung as the Cradle song, or Do not leave me,...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1999

Bach St Matthew Passion

The reappearance of Willcocks's 1978 Decca recording restores not only an English language St Matthew Passion to the catalogue but...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 7/1994

Piano & Percussion in the 20th Century

Tailleferre’s Rameau homage brings an unexpected astringency to her music: the charming four-hand sets are more typical. Maderna’s early Concerto...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 6/1998

R. Strauss Ein Heldenleben; Four Last Songs

A distinguished Strauss disc, and how good to find it sponsored by a Scottish commercial firm. The SNO made many...

Reviewed in issue 10/1987

Handel Recorder Sonatas.

These young players have plenty of ideas about the music they play; the result is usually quite invigorating but not,...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/1997

Bellini (La) Sonnambula

The Company is only rehearsing Bellini’s opera, which they intend to perform in a largely traditional style of production. This...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/2010

Berlioz Death of Orpheus; Death of Cleopatra

To have on a single disc Berlioz’s four attempts at the Prix de Rome, or at least as much of...

Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 9/2003

McCabe Piano Concerto; Orchestral Works

Dutton has, for the moment, taken up the McCabe banner from Hyperion. Following the Fibonacci Sequence’s splendid chamber disc (10/03),...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 3/2004

Bach Motets

This new recording of Bach's motets includes six of the seven works published in the Neue Bachausgake in 1965. The...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 12/1988

Dvorák Te Deum. Mendelssohn Psalm, Op 42

Mendelssohn thought highly of his setting of Psalm 42 (‘As the hart panteth after the water brooks’), even declaring to...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/1999

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