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Philip Martin Chamber & Vocal Works

Philip Martin is an Irish composer in his forties, a pupil of Franz Reizenstein and Sir Lennox Berkeley. His music...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1995

Albinoni Concerti & Sonatas

Albinoni's Op. 7 was published in 1715. Its 12 concertos are broken down into three distinct types: four for strings...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1993

Robledo: Sacred choral works

The Aragonese composer Melchor Robledo is sufficiently obscure to need a few words of introduction. With dates of c. 1511-86,...

Reviewed in issue 3/1987

Chilcott Man I Sing

Bob Chilcott’s choral music has long been favoured by choral groups who relish his often light-hearted, always accessible and immensely...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/2007

Vaughan Williams Symphonies Nos 7 & 8

It's good news that Decca are reissuing Boult's earlier recordings of Vaughan Williams's symphonies for in the main they are...

Reviewed in issue 1/1990

Organ Recital

It would be a stony heart which could resist such splendour. This famous vast organ, possessing riches beyond the dreams...

Reviewed in issue 11/1984

Chloë

When the publicity machine is so highly organised‚ it is all the harder to take a dispassionate view of a...

Reviewed in issue 11/2001

Donizetti L'elisir d'amore

Levine conducts a lively performance, Battle makes a sympathetic Adina, Dara is a thoroughly professional purveyor of the elixir; but...

Reviewed in issue 2/1991

Perlman Rediscovered

Amazing to think that in 1965, with a violinist of Itzhak Perlman’s calibre on its books, RCA shelved what was...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2004

Rita Streich - Waltzes & Lyrical Songs

A pupil of Maria Ivogun and Erna Berger, Streich had the same pearly tone and faultless technique as her teachers...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1999

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