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Ockeghem Masses, Volume 8
(The) Clerks' Group | Edward Wickham
With these two discs the Clerks Group bring to a close their complete survey of Ockeghem’s sacred music – a...
Reviewed in issue 8/2001
Bizet Carmen
This is the first modern recording of Carmen in English, although there have been many individual items, and in 1962...
Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 3/2003
Prokofiev/Hindemith Chamber Works
This intriguing disc brings together two of Prokofiev's early chamber works and Hindemith's last. The earlier of the two Prokofiev...
Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 6/1993
Mompou Combat del Somni
Wilfred Mellers may have called him ‘a minor muse’ but Mompou’s sense of ‘truth’, whether expressed in memories of a...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/2006
Beethoven Choral Fantasy; Liszt Cantata
Liszt told his pupil Gollerich: ‘Beethoven appeared at my second Viennese concert for Czerny’s sake and kissed me on the...
Reviewed in issue 7/2001
Szymanowski Choral Works
Szymanowski worked on his choral ballet Harnasie for the best part of a decade (1923-31), finishing it only a few...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 12/1991
The Golden Age, Vol. 1
Magnificat Choir | Philip Cave | Ruth Holton
This disc’s curious subtitle (“Vol. 1 – Europe”) leaves me nonplussed. Has Euro-scepticism hit the British early music scene? Or...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/1996
Wolf-Ferrari Sly
Giovaccino Forzano's libretto for Sly (originally written for Puccini) uses the 'Induction' to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew only...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/2000
Respighi Orchestral Works
Adriano | Bratislava Radio Symphony Orchestra
These performances may not be ideal, but they are certainly illuminating, for each of these works offers rich insights into...
Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 5/1992
Lakatos
Discographers with a liking for musical categories might have trouble with this one: it isn’t jazz, neither is it –...
Reviewed in issue 2/1999
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