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Stravinsky Apollon musagète; Pulcinella suite
Alexander Janiczek | Chamber Orchestra of Europe
These two classic ballet scores, composed eight years apart, could hardly be more different. The Pulcinella Suite (1920) comes from...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 1/2010
Ockeghem Missa De Plus En Plus
(The) Clerks' Group | Edward Wickham
The highly acclaimed Ockeghem series from The Clerks’ Group continues with this premiere recording of another of the composer’s four-voice...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 1/1997
Sweet stay awhile - Songs and Lute Pieces by Dowland
Charles Daniels | David Miller
The quality of Charles Daniels’s voice suits these songs well but he seems more in tune where the texts are...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 10/1998
Mandelion - 20th-Century Organ Works
This is an extraordinary collection, another tribute to Bowyer’s prodigious exploratory fervour following his previous Nimbus recordings: Schoenberg/Hindemith (1/95), Harvey/Davies/Williamson...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 6/1999
Britten Sacred and Profane
The programme is delightful and the choir excellent. If bought ‘on spec’, without deliberations over rival recordings, pauses for comparisons...
Reviewed in issue 6/2001
Prime Meridian
The phrase ‘arranged for brass quintet’ too often means ‘emasculated and equipped with brass-band cliches and showy solos for the...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1996
Beethoven Piano Works, Vol 7
The iconic status of Schnabel’s pioneering Beethoven sonata recordings is amply confirmed by Volume 7 of Naxos’s continuing series. Superbly...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/2005
Beethoven/Mozart Chamber Works
Budapest Wind Ens | Keller Qt | Zoltán Kocsis
Mozart's Piano and Wind Quintet of 1784 is music that he himself prized, for he wrote to his father saying,...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1992
Shostakovich Chamber Works
Here is a welcome complement to the Brodsky Quartet’s Shostakovich quartet cycle for Teldec (6/92). Since that appeared 10 years...
Reviewed in issue 5/2002
Charles Ives: Songs, Vol. 2
Roberta Alexander's second Ives recital is full of good things. On this occasion she for the most part leaves aside...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/1989
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