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Mozart Serenade, K361

Here is yet another very fine recording of this evergreen work. The Soloists of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe are,...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/1991

Brahms Choral Works

The Liebeslieder Waltzes have long been a favourite of amateur choral societies. I suspect one reason for this is that,...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 8/1992

Mayerl (A) Miscellany for Solo Piano Vol 2

Leslie De’Ath first recorded some Mayerl for fun and then decided to release the CD (Editor’s Choice, 12/08). Obviously he...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 11/2009

Mendelssohn Organ Works, Vol.1

Mendelssohn's reputation as a composer for the organ rests entirely on six Sonatas and three Preludes and Fugues. In fact...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 10/1992

Haydn String Quartets, Op 17 Nos 3, 5 & 6

The Kodaly’s Haydn will now be familiar enough to many readers. It deploys a mellow, homogeneous tone and phrases with...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 13/1999

Schumann: Symphonies 1 & 4

Schumann's symphonies have so often been berated for their poor orchestration that there is a particular case for seeing, or...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1990

Bach Easter and Ascension Oratorios

Surprisingly, this pair of ‘oratorios’ has been coupled irregularly on record. Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen (the so-called Ascension Oratorio)...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 6/2006

Beethoven Edition, Vol.19 - Large Choral Works

Subscribers to the whole edition will not need guidance over this, beyond, perhaps, an assurance that it is not in...

Reviewed in issue 13/1997

Germaine Cernay (1900-43)

Cernay was one of those French singers, much more common in the past than today, whom it is hard to...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1991

(The) Earliest Songbook in England

The eight leaves of the Cambridge University Library manuscript Ff. I. 17 are surely not in fact the earliest songbook...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: /2000

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