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Orlando Gibbons: Tudor Church Music

This is the kind of recording that particularly benefits from Compact Disc format. It contains 17 separate pieces of varying...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 4/1986

Forbidden Voices

A modest affair recorded in the intimate acoustic of the recital room of an Oxford college, this copiously annotated collection...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 6/2007

Berlioz Benvenuto Cellini

Even Sir Colin Davis has rarely conducted a more electrifying Berlioz performance on record than here, demonstrating—with the help of...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1989

English Song Series, Vol. 5 - Quilter

When Quilter sat down at the piano, did he always put his hands on the keyboard in the same kinds...

Reviewed in issue 5/1998

Clarinet Concertos Richard Stoltzman

I recently reviewed Richard Stoltzman’s anthology of American clarinet and piano works called “Amber Waves” (RCA, 9/96), where he had...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 12/1996

Schubert Complete Lieder, Vol.29

In terms of content and performance, this is – with a single exception – one of the most rewarding CDs...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1997

Berwald Chamber Music, Volume 2

Hyperion follow up their record of the early 1819 E flat Quartet for piano and wind, the 1828 Septet and...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 6/1997

Bartók Mikrokosmos

Primary teaching materials rarely make for stimulating musical entertainment, and the first two books of Bartok’s Mikrokosmos will only be...

Reviewed in issue 6/1999

Mozart Symphonies Nos 35 & 36

With the catalogue seething with recordings of both of these symphonies embracing every conceivable interpretative stance, any newcomer has got...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2005

Schubert Mass, D950; Offertorium, D963; Tantum ergo, D962

Like Sawallisch’s EMI disc, this latest offering from Rilling and his Stuttgart forces brings together Schubert’s last three sacred works:...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/1998

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