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Chausson; Duparc; Ravel Orchestral Songs

What sort of style really suits Ravel’s Shéhérazade? It has been recorded so often by large voices – heroic sopranos...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 2/2004

Aliotti Sansone (Il)

Bonaventura Aliotti‚ unrepresented in the CD catalogues until now‚ was a Sicilian composer of the middle Baroque‚ born in Palermo...

Reviewed in issue 9/2002

M. Haydn Symphonies; Missa Sancti Francisci Seraphici

It is no longer a secret that Michael Haydn was a talented composer, but an enjoyable new disc of his...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 8/2007

Charivari Agréable - Two upon a Ground

Seventeenth-century English domestic music for solo viols is hard to bring off but Charivari Agreable welcome us into their private...

Reviewed in issue 2/1999

Kodály: Choral Music

By a misfortune of timing, the Regent Chamber Choir's performance of Kodaly's Missa brevis, conducted and accompanied by two former...

Reviewed in issue 5/1989

Turnage Orchestral Works

This is a stunning collection, even more convincing proof than the recent recording of his opera Greek (Argo, 7/94) that...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1994

Homage to Maria Callas

It seems EMI are unafraid of inviting comparisons. Not only is the title of this disc ‘Homage to Maria Callas’...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 1/2012

Vaughan Williams Symphonies

In large-scale choral repertory Sir Malcolm Sargent had few peers and the present 1965 performance of VW’s A Sea Symphony...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 4/1996

Clara Schumann: Piano Works

When first issued in 1985, this tribute to Clara Schumann was a two-LP set, also including her splendid G minor...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1988

Liszt Piano Works

No prizes for predicting that this Liszt B minor Sonata is technically flawless and beautifully structured. What may come as...

Reviewed in issue 7/1990

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