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German Songs by American Composers

This is a fascinating collection of Lieder, all written by these American composers before the age of 30. Very few...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 4/1992

Favourite Anthems from Winchester

‘Favourite’ is itself a favourite among terms used by the compilers of programmes such as this, but it rather begs...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/2002

Sumer is icumen in

A truly international disc. Medieval English songs sung most movingly by a favourite English group in an English church (St...

Reviewed in issue 3/1987

Rypdal Lux Aeterna

Terje Rypdal (b1947), who helped define the ECM jazz sound, composed Lux Aeterna in response to a request from the...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 4/2003

Dvorak Symphonies Nos 7 & 8

Sir Charles Mackerras himself provides potent rivalry in the form of a Classics for Pleasure double-pack where all three late...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 4/2010

Turina/Granados Piano Trios

A minor amusement can be found here in comparing the four different-language notes. Of the youthful Granados Trio (dated by...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1997

Beethoven (The) Complete Cello Sonatas

The Brendels, father and son, give us Beethoven’s complete works for piano and cello, and you will have to search...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/2005

Pro Defunctis - Liturgy for the Death of the Baroque Era

I was initially puzzled by the title to this collection of music composed for the liturgy of the Dead‚ although...

Reviewed in issue 4/2002

Handel Solomon

Solomon is an astonishing masterpiece: each of its three acts portrays a vital aspect of the virtue, wisdom and glory...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2006

Ravel Works for Violin and Piano

Who would have thought that a disc devoted to Ravel's music for violin and piano was possible? Well, it is,...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 8/1992

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