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Villa-Lobos: Works for Voice and Strings

In the normal way, a certain logic would exist in a Bach-loving nationalist composer progressing from transcribing some of the...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1987

Antheil Fighting the Waves

This release appears to overlap with the first recording of Ballet mecanique under Maurice Peress on Music Masters (4/94) but...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 12/1996

Mozart Violin Sonatas, Vol. 2

Last September, just less than a year after his sensational London recital, the veteran American-born Russian violinist Oscar Shumsky, was...

Reviewed in issue 2/1984

Sylvia Sass Opera Arias

Singers must sometimes feel that they can't win. When they adhere scrupulously to the score they are accused of literalism,...

Reviewed in issue 2/1988

Mozart The Six Haydn Quartets

With 21 versions now in the catalogue, several available in more than one coupling, Mozart's Dissonance Quartet, K465, currently ties...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/1991

From the Vaults of Westminster Cathedral

The front cover gives little hint of what the disc might contain since the title simply states “A procession of...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2009

Vasks Cello Concerto etc.

This fine disc is the Riga Philharmonic’s – and Conifer’s – second foray into the music of the Latvian Peteris...

Reviewed in issue 12/1996

Purcell Dido and Aeneas

These two reissues perhaps offer the two extremes of Dido interpretation. Raymond Leppard with the English Chamber Orchestra gives a...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/1991

Contrasts

Despite its title, this debut disc from the 29-strong amateur Dutch vocal ensemble Cantatrix suffers from a lack of contrast....

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 12/2010

Creator of the Stars

This Christmas disc ranges far and wide through the renaissance, from Dufay to Praetorius. The guiding thread is the transformation...

Reviewed in issue 12/1997

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