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Charpentier Noëls and Christmas Motets, Vol 2

Perhaps few composers have produced as much beautiful Christmas music as Charpentier; there are six shortish Christmas oratorios alone. At...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2002

Roberto Gerhard 5

Continuing its valuable series of recordings of works by Roberto Gerhard, the Caja de Madrid Foundation now arrives at three...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1997

Reynaldo Hahn: Mélodies

''An Evening with Reynaldo Hahn'' would surely have been an irresistible attraction to have seen advertised outside (say) the Wigmore...

Reviewed in issue 3/1990

Wolf Möricke Lieder

Dinah Bryant is a soprano who has worked in various opera houses on the Continent, for the most part in...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1991

Takemitsu Songs

Takemitsu might not normally be associated with song, but the Japanese composer wrote many; this disc offers a representative cross-section....

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 1/2008

Liszt Piano Works

Gerhard Oppitz is a deeply serious artist who also possesses a virtuoso technique, and in this he resembles Peter Donohoe,...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1992

Liszt Piano Concertos

For all sorts of reasons Richter's London debut concerts in July 1961 were the sensation of the season - a...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 4/2000

Mendelssohn Organ Works

In some ways, Mendelssohn may be classed with his 'romantic' nineteenth-century colleagues, for to take just one area of his...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 5/1992

Ron Goodwin Orchestral Works

The two most widely known items here will be the themes from 633 Squadron and The Trap – the former...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 2/1997

Reimann Melusine

I admire Aribert Reimann but nothing would persuade me that, as these booklet-notes declare, his 1971 Melusine is “one of...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 4/2011

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