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Padilla Streams of Tears

Padilla’s music has been awaiting a recording such as this for some time: the earliest of the transcriptions on this...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 9/2008

Schubert Orchestral Works

What a variable cycle this is turning out to be—the excellence of the sound being the only consistent factor. Though...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/1992

Korngold Complete Music for Violin & Piano

ASV’s latest addition to its Korngold series is an indispensable disc gathering together the complete works for violin and piano,...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 9/2000

Debussy/Ravel String Quartets

Only superlatives come to mind when describing the Alban Berg Quartet's form in these performances. The Orlando (Philips) are never...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 4/1986

Palestrina - Offertoria

The collection from which these motets are drawn appeared in print a few months before Palestrina’s death, but may have...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 4/2007

Bizet Djamileh

Were it not for its static action and its uncomfortable length we should surely see and hear Bizet's penultimate opera...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1989

Brahms Piano Works

Together with the Op 76 Capricci and Intermezzi, Opp 116-119 form a unique, profound cornerstone of the repertoire. Bold, turbulent...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2005

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf - A Self Portrait

This documentary, made for television in 1995, is subtitled ‘A Self-Portrait’, so one assumes that Schwarzkopf herself had at least...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 12/2002

Heinichen Lamentationes etc

As a follow-up to their colourful (and Gramophone Award-winning) album of concertos by the Dresden composer Heinichen (Archiv,...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1996

Portuguese Polyphony

Ars Nova have recorded an enterprising selection of music, very well suited to their rich, full sound. A noteworthy feature...

Reviewed in issue 3/1996

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