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Rossini Petite messe solennelle

Rossini's Petite messe solennelle was originally written for the piquant assemblage of 12 voices two pianos, and harmonium; a scale...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/1995

Telemann St Matthew Passion

Telemann wrote a new (or virtually new) biblical Passion setting every year during his tenure as musical director at Hamburg‚...

Reviewed in issue 11/2001

Mahler Symphony 4 & Berg 7 Early Songs

When these performers launched the Concertgebouw's current season with Mahler's Fourth, it was only to be expected that Decca would...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 4/2000

Kodály Te Deum & Missa brevis

On first hearing this issue on LP in 1971, Alec Robertson felt convinced that ''performances and recordings as good as...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 6/1987

Beethoven Symphony No 9

I suppose it is true, as Voltaire somewhat obliquely remarked, that the best is the enemy of the good. Certainly...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1991

Mozart Chamber Music for Wind and Strings

The difference in substance between these three chamber works – each designed to display the special skills of the wind...

Reviewed in issue 11/1996

Healey Willan Masses and Motets

A gentle beauty holds sway throughout this recital, and though that may not sound like a reproach it does constitute...

Reviewed in issue 2/1997

Elgar & Walton Violin Sonatas

It is good to find so responsive a young violinist as Daniel Hope turning to British music. As with his...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/2001

Caldara Missa Dolorosa. Stabat Mater

Although the paragraph on the rear of the disc proclaims Caldara’s Stabat mater to be ‘a major score of the...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 1/2001

Lalo Symphonie Espagnole

Howard Zhang, born in Shanghai and brought up in the US, was only 16 or 17 when this CD was...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 10/2003

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