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Dvorák Serenade; Gounod Petite symphonie

This recording gives one a splendid sense of being very close, not to a unified wind band but to a...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/1985

Vladimir Horowitz plays Russian Works

It was understandable that RCA's engineers should have placed their microphones close to the piano when Horowitz played Pictures at...

Reviewed in issue 1/1992

Hyand String Quartet, Op.51

The Shostakovich Quartet are very much the caviar in the hamper of Soviet goodies energetically and enterprisingly negotiated by Olympia...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 12/1988

Tallis: Sacred Choral Works

Never before has Spem in alium, Tallis's great 40-part motet, so closely resembled the Last Judgement as it does in...

Reviewed in issue 5/1990

Bach Cantatas

These three cantatas were recorded in the impressive Herkulessaal in Munich between 1971 and 1975, under the direction of Karl...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 8/1989

Messiaen Complete Organ Works

In March and April last year, six organists, each highly regarded by the composer, performed Messiaen’s complete organ works in...

Reviewed by prussell in issue: 7/1996

Mozart La Clemenza di Tito

At the time of its first issue, this set did a great deal to enumerate the strength and beauty of...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1991

In Nomine - (The) Witten In Nomine Broken Consort Book

A contemporary music ‘sampler’ with a twist from one of Germany’s most exciting ensembles. Readers would hardly thank me for...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 2/2005

J C Bach Keyboard Concertos, Op 7

In the multi-talented Anthony Halstead’s previous disc (11/97) of J. C. Bach’s keyboard concertos he employed nine strings from the...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1999

Coates, G Indian sounds

Gloria Coates (b1938) is here described in composer-critic Kyle Gann’s notes as ‘an atonal-expressionist post-minimalist…her music is a vehicle for...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/2003

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