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Pergolesi Stabat Mater; Salve Regina

The way of the Cross has never been more gently depicted than in the opening of this Stabat mater. The...

Reviewed in issue 5/1994

Ponchielli La Gioconda

In spite of the fact that it was recorded almost 40 years ago, this remains a competitive version. Though three...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1996

D. Scarlatti Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol 2

No sooner does Naxos commence one immense project (the complete piano music of Liszt, for example) than it starts another....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2000

Ysaye Music for Strings

Ysaÿe’s own music was all but engulfed by his performing career and the only composition of note that has held...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/2011

Stravinsky Agon; Canticum Sacrum; Requiem Canticles

I can’t recall ever having enjoyed a recording of the late, gnomic Requiem Canticles quite as much as this one:...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 4/2009

Debussy; Dutilleux; Ravel String Quartets

Though formed as long ago as 1994, when the members were students of the Royal College of Music, the Belcea...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 4/2001

Mozart Works for Flute and Orchestra

One advantage this new issue has over the two with James Galway as soloist is that it has an extra...

Reviewed in issue 9/1986

Shostakovich Piano Concertos Nos 1 and 2

These Royal Festival Hall performances are classic examples of live recordings that paraxodically generate less excitement than one would expect...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 7/2011

Delius Piano Concerto in C minor; Ireland Legend

Having already given us a scintillating version of Delius’s 1907 Piano Concerto with Vernon Handley and the RLPO (CfP, 11/95R),...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 2/2006

Complete New English Hymnal, Vol 10

Whereas the recent disc by the choir of Wells Cathedral, ‘Hills of the North, rejoice!’ (Hyperion, 12/02), led with one...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/2003

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