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Dunstable Motets
Hilliard Ens | Hilliard Ensemble | Paul Hillier
These first reissues in Virgin Veritas’s new Hilliard Edition mark a belated tribute to one of the most enduring names...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/1997
French Chamber Music
The French have a predilection for the harp, and also for the flute: a selection of their chamber music featuring...
Reviewed in issue 12/1984
Puccini (Il) Trittico
This Warner DVD offers idiomatic performances from La Scala of Puccini’s trilogy, conducted by the veteran Gianandrea Gavazzeni, always an...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/2004
Englund Epinikia; Symphonies 2 and 4
The best-known Finnish symphonists of the post-Sibelius and post-Madetoja generation are Kokkonen and Sallinen—and perhaps one might possibly add to...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 8/1992
Vanhal Six Quartette Concertanate
Piccolo Concerto Wien | Sarah Francis | Tagore String Trio
There have been a couple of rather exciting records recently of symphonies Vanhal symphonies; but this disc, though pleasant enough,...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 11/2000
(The) 5 Browns - No Boundaries
Deondra Brown | Desirae Brown | Melody Brown | Ryan Brown | The 5 Browns
The Five Browns are talented, photogenic pianists who all studied at the Juilliard, seem to get along together and, judging...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2006
Bach Orchestral Suites
Frans Brüggen | Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
A guest appearance of Frans Bruggen with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment has produced this new recording of...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1997
Atterberg Symphony No 9
Having rattled off six symphonies by the time he was 40, the remaining 47 years of Atterberg’s life saw just...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 13/2003
Skalkottas (36) Greek Dances; (The) Return of Ulysses
BBC Symphony Orchestra | Nikos Christodoulou
The (one hopes) eventually comprehensive survey of Nikos Skalkottas on BIS has now arrived at a work central to his...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 8/2003
Boulez conducts Zappa
Barking Pumpkin Digital Gratification Band | Ensemble InterContemporain, Paris | Pierre Boulez
Calling these pieces 'chamber works' is probably another of Frank Zappa's jokes: the biggest of them are inventively scored for...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1985
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