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Palestrina: Choral works

It says something about the limited horizons of both choirmasters and producers that I now have five different recordings of...

Reviewed in issue 1/1987

Mannheim - The Golden Age

This CD offers an interesting cross-section, as it were, of the Mannheim School, from its salad days in the 1750s...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 9/2000

Liszt Complete Piano Works, Vol 57

Leslie Howard’s two-volume set of the complete Hungarian Rhapsodies brings to a close a project demanding the strength and determination...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 13/1999

Schubert Mass No 5; Mendelssohn Psalm 42

With a mere handful of recordings of Mendelssohn’s Psalm 42 currently available, it may seem strange that Philippe Herreweghe has...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 4/2003

Britten The Burning Fiery Furnace

If Curlew River is the best and most moving of Britten's three church parables, The Burning Fiery Furnace is the...

Reviewed in issue 10/1990

Puccini Messa di Gloria

Those who bought the recently issued recording of these three works under Antonio Pappano are probably and properly very happy...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 6/2002

Poulenc; Respighi; Rheinberger Organ Concertos

To mark the 10th anniversary of the Klais organ in Bath Abbey, Regent first released this BBC recording of the...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/2010

Adams Phrygian Gates; Rzewski Four Pieces

Emanuele Arciuli is a deliberate pianist who’s unafraid to demarcate structural joins with his brittle attack and strategic nose for...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 13/2006

Shostakovich Cello Concertos

Anticipating the ultimate judgements of posterity can be a risky business, and yet in the case of Shostakovich concertos I'll...

Reviewed in issue 4/1995

Handel Amadigi di Gaula

The merits of this great but neglected opera were first brought to my notice when Roger Norrington conducted the first...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1991

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