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Sheppard; Tallis; Tye Sacred Choral Works

This is a fascinating record, a selection of mid-16th-century Latin-texted pieces by English composers connected with the court, living through...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 9/2005

Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet

No, the English Chamber Orchestra simply doesn't cut it in Francesca da Rimini's whirlwinds of hell. It's a performance that...

Reviewed by jswain in issue: 2/2000

Dusapin Perelà: Man of Smoke

For all the dearth of performances outside western Europe, Pascal Dusapin (b1955) is among the most significant composers at work...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 7/2005

Great European Organs, No.23

Graham Barber could be accused of hogging the limelight in this excellent series from Priory. But such exposure can be...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 7/1991

The Unfinished Mozart

Mozart's surviving sketches fall into two distinct groups: true sketches, in which he drafted ideas or worked out some sort...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 10/1994

Britten Albert Herring

This recording of Albert Herring is of considerable historical interest. By the time Benjamin Britten conducted the Decca studio version...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/2008

Gesualdo Madrigals

I welcomed the Fifth Book of Gesualdo’s madrigals from this group a few months ago (Arion, 3/98); this time around...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 9/1998

Maxwell Davies Concertos

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies is writing a series of ten concertos for members of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, of which...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 1/1990

Italian Madrigals

This new anthology of sixteenth-century Italian madrigals, available as yet only on CD, is something of a triumph, even if...

Reviewed in issue 6/1986

Messiaen & Xenakis Choral works

Following on from the song-cycle Harawi and the Turangalila-symphonie, Messiaen's Cinq rechants of 1948 complete his so-called Tristan-trilogy. So the...

Reviewed in issue 10/1990

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