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Milhaud Pacem in Terris
Milhaud's admirers can never have imagined that last year's centenary would give us so many worthy recordings of his music,...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 11/1993
Leifs Works for Solo Voices and Orchestra
Until recently, Leifs’ vocal music has been overshadowed by the spectacular orchestral works. Aside from the Iceland Cantata (5/96) and...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 1/2001
Beethoven Irish, Welsh and Scottish Songs
Alessandro Moccia | Alix Verzier | Jérôme Hantaï | Paul Agnew | Peter Harvey | Sophie Daneman
With 140 to choose from‚ here is an excellent selection of Beethoven’s folksong arrangements‚ performed with all due care and...
Reviewed in issue 12/2001
Brahms Piano Works
From the viewpoint of sound, I'd question the wisdom of asking full price for this 69-minute dip into the five-disc...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1994
Llibre Vermell - Pilgrim Songs and Dances
New London Consort | Philip Pickett
Philip Pickett's second recording of pilgrim songs and dances is a worthy successor to his earlier ''Pilgrimage to Santiago'' (7/92)....
Reviewed by mberry in issue: 12/1992
Schmidt, F Symphony No 1
Malmö Symphony Orchestra | Vassily Sinaisky
Despite some celebrated past recordings, including Mehta’s of the Fourth Symphony (nla) with the Vienna Philharmonic (in which Schmidt played...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 6/2009
Skempton (The) Cloths of Heaven
A AaaUnspecified | Exon Singers | Matthew Owens
Music for piano and accordion may be the “central nervous system” of his work but recent discs suggest Howard Skempton’s...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 0/2008
Mahler Lieder
Those of us who are something less than 100 per cent Mahlerians occasionally feel that the composer was at his...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1987
Pergolesi Livietta e Tracollo; (La) Serva Padrona
The soundrecording of these performances was very acceptable but of course nowadays you never know what abominations the staging will...
Reviewed in issue 13/2002
Passiontide
Christopher Stokes | Claire Buckley | Emily Gray | Jeffrey Makinson | Manchester Cathedral Choir
Recorded in January and February of this year‚ this wideranging collection of pieces on the theme of Passiontide is...
Reviewed in issue 6/2002
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