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Tippett A Child of our Time

Chandos's double Gramophone Award in 1992, in the Best Choral and Best Engineered categories, for their recording of Britten's War...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/1993

Martinu Unpublished Vocal Works

Martinu’s vocal music is well represented in the catalogue, notably by The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Greek Passion, but...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/2011

Telemann Chamber Music

Telemann is rightly beloved of recorder players. He was first and foremost a keyboard player and his music is not...

Reviewed in issue 1/2002

A. Scarlatti Venere a Adone: Il giardino d'amore

This is the second version on disc of Alessandro Scarlatti's serenata to have come my way in the last 12...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1991

Debussy; Fauré; Stravinsky String Quartet

Here is the latest offering from the Wigmore Hall’s home-grown label. If you didn’t know it was live, you might...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2006

Saints & Sinners

This disc is subtitled ‘Seventeenth-century musical dialogues’ although in fact only about half of the pieces strictly conform to this...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 4/1999

Mozart Choral Works

These seem rather old-fashioned performances nowadays, but they are vigorous and full of conviction and I am sure that there...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/1994

Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Works

This is my first encounter with the Oregon Symphony Orchestra. On the evidence of this excellent Tchaikovsky concert their ensemble...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/1990

Britten St. Nicholas; Rejoice in the Lamb

If I was forced, at knife-point say, to name my very favourite work by Britten, I think it might be...

Reviewed in issue 9/1990

Ravel: Piano and Orchestral Works

This new Czech issue's duration of only 40 minutes seems a disadvantageous way to enter so strongly competitive a field...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1988

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