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Kapsberger Libro Secondo d' arie

Of German descent, Giovanni Kapsberger was born in Italy and established himself as a central musical figure in Rome in...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2006

A Renaissance Anthology

First recorded more than 30 years ago by no less a partnership than Fritz Reiner and the Chicago SO (RCA,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 5/1993

New Year's Concert in Vienna, 1987

A splendid and indispensable issue for all admirers of Karajan and Johann Strauss. Watching the actual concert on TV was...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/1987

Purcell Sacred Choral Works

Aware that the fruits of a collaboration of Simon Preston and the choir of Christ Church, Oxford, with Trevor Pinnock's...

Reviewed in issue 5/1989

Mozart Requiem

“This distinctive recording of Mozart’s last great work can claim to be unique,” announces a foreword to the booklet....

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2011

Holt Boots of Lead; Feet of Clay

Since NMC issued its first disc of music by Simon Holt (5/93) there has been a steady stream of new...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 13/2004

Stokowski Bach Transcriptions

José Serebrier and the Bournemouth orchestra follow up their brilliant disc of Stokowski’s Mussorgsky arrangements (A/05) with this mainly Bach...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/2006

Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1

In his Piano Sonatas, Op. 2 Beethoven shows himself to be both fluent in the galant style, inherited from Haydn,...

Reviewed in issue 7/1993

Nepomuceno Piano Music

Anyone seeking enlightenment from the current Gramophone Classical Catalogue in this country could be forgiven for conducting that Brazilian music...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 2/1995

Bitter Ballads

Paul Hillier really is extraordinary. Recent releases include ‘Chansons de Trouveres’ (Harmonia Mundi, 4/97), and John Cage (Harmonia Mundi, 8/98)...

Reviewed in issue 3/1999

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