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Vaughan Williams Symphonies Nos 7 & 8

Impressively masterminded though it is, it would be idle to pretend that Naxos’s new recording of VW’s Sinfonia antartica matches...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/1998

Mahler Symphony No. 6

Bernard Haitink’s recent re-engagement with the Beethoven symphonies prompted a shift towards lighter textures and swifter speeds; his latest Mahlers...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 8/2008

Gombert Magnificat 5 - 8

As I noted when reviewing the first volume of this set (12/01), Gombert’s Magnificats have long been regarded as a...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2002

Cathedral Music by Geoffrey Burgon

The name of Geoffrey Burgon will recall at once the highly successful music for Brideshead Revisited and for Tinker, Tailor,...

Reviewed in issue 9/1984

(The) Ladyes Delight

This is an English renaissance recital, most of it instrumental, much of it dating from the turn of the sixteenth...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 8/1998

Zelenka Prague 1723

Zelenka’s orchestral pieces are few in number but quite well represented on disc. This programme by the period-instrument ensemble Il...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1999

Respighi: Tone poems

As assistant to George Szell with the Cleverland Orchestra in its heyday, Louis Lane made several attractive records, of which...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1985

Mendelssohn: String Symphonies

When I reviewed William Boughton's Nimbus set of the complete Mendelssohn string symphonies in March I had to point out...

Reviewed in issue 11/1989

Henze El Cimarrón

Only four years separate The Bassarids from El Cimarron yet the gulf between their respective musical styles is immense. It...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 1/1992

Richard Leech From the Heart - Italian arias and songs

Richard Leech was a forthright Duke of Mantua in a New York City Opera production in 1988; since then he...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 2/1997

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