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Fauré Choral Works

This is the Faure Requiem to come home to. Its original reviewer in Gramophone was Alec Robertson, who declared that...

Reviewed in issue 7/1993

Brahms Cello Sonatas

A notably well-recorded set: cello and piano are finely balanced, the sound is warm, yet, crucially for Brahms, the bass...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 5/2000

Mussorgsky Orchestral and Choral Works

Abbado has recorded all this music before: Pictures for DG (3/89) and the rest for RCA with the LSO Chorus...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1995

Gerald Finley - Great Operatic Arias, Vol 22

All essentials for a recital are present here: the featured artist in good voice, imagination capable of bringing 13 different...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 4/2010

French Orchestral Works

This is a collection of French lollipops which Beecham would have relished. Hickox and the City of London Sinfonia may...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1990

Dvorák Violin & Piano Works

In the wake of the warmly praised DG’s brother-and-sister team of Gil and Orli Shaham in this repertoire last May,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/1998

Legrenzi Sonatas & Motets

Giovanni Legrenzi was the most important composer working in Venice during the second half of the seventeenth century. He was...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1998

Soler Variaciones del Fandango espagnol

The fandangos most familiar to today’s music-lovers are probably the Miller’s Wife’s dance in The Three-Cornered Hat and those in...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 6/1999

Palestrina Sacred Choral Works

This is perhaps one of the best Renaissance records Philip Ledger made with the King's College Choir. Bright, joyful singing,...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 10/1986

Monteverdi (L') Orfeo

I'm afraid I can't summon up much enthusiasm for either of these recordings. Orfeo is directed by Trisha Brown, who...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 3/2007

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