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The Special Sound of Chandos
It is good to have on Compact Disc format such formidable evidence of the prowess of the Chandos engineers. As...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1983
Messe de Mariage
Denis Raisin-Dadre | Doulce Mémoire
Doulce Memoire’s account of the Funeral Mass for Henry IV of France (assassinated in 1610) is arguably the finest of...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 4/2001
Respighi La bella dormente nel bosco
Respighi’s La bella dormente nel bosco (“Sleeping Beauty”), a “musical fairy-tale in three acts”, is one of his most unassumingly...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1996
ARNESEN Magnificat KERNIS Musica Celestis
Nidarosdomens jentekor | Trondheim Soloists
Although this disc was recorded in the northernmost medieval cathedral in the world (in Trondheim), there is nothing chilly about...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2015
DIBDIN The Wags
Simon Butteriss | Stephen Higgins
Come one, come all: come to the camp of pleasure! The year is 1790 and the setting is an elegant...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2022
LASSUS Le Nozze in Baviera
The festivities in 1568 for the wedding of Renate of Lorraine to Wilhelm V, heir to the duchy of Bavaria,...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2021
Messiah Remix
Is nothing sacred? When it came to sampling, stealing and re-spraying other people’s tunes, Baroque composers didn’t think so. I...
Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 1/2005
Rossini Bianca e Falliero
Whatever its dramatic merits – and‚ make no mistake‚ a great performance can rivet sense – Rossini’s Bianca e Falliero...
Reviewed in issue 13/2001
(A) Tribute to Benny Goodman
Starting with a dazzling account of Sir Malcolm Arnold’s Second Concerto, the one written for Benny Goodman, this is not...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1998
Julian Prégardien: An die Geliebte
Christoph Schnackertz | Julian Prégardien
For his debut solo recital Julian Prégardien, son of Christoph, has devised an unhackneyed programme centring on the theme of...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW2014
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