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Palestrina Masses and Motets

In his review of the Chapelle Royale's recording of Palestrina's Missa Assumpta est Maria on Ricercar/Harmonia Mundi, DF pointed out...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 9/1990

Schütz The Nativity

Schutz's ever-popular Christmas Story continues to hold audiences and to attract singers and players alike. These two new recordings from...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 3/1991

Bruckner Symphony No 7

Sir Roger Norrington’s Bruckner Seventh might not be quite the work that you, or I, know and love, but under...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 9/2009

Guiliani; Sor Guitar Works

Since its first appearance in 1945, Andrés Segovia’s edition of 20 of Fernando Sor’s studies has both delighted and tormented...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 10/2007

Moore Music

Dr Patrick Moore is one of the four great communicators of British television - alongside David Attenborough, Kenneth Clark and...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 13/1999

Vivaldi Concertos for the Emperor

Vivaldi published his Op 9 concertos, La cetra (‘The Lyre’), in 1727. Soon after, he presented Charles VI, the Habsburg...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 10/2004

Feldman Something Wild (music for film)

Feldman’s film music? Is it possible? Certainly if you investigate the Feldman archives at the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 3/2003

Mozart (Die) Entführung aus dem Serail (DVD)

A thoroughly schizophrenic Seraglio. It’s well recorded and musically excellent‚ with Zagrosek (known to British audiences from his stint at...

Reviewed in issue 10/2001

Weber Clarinet Concertos

Both Eduard Brunner and Janet Hilton (Chandos) are outstanding clarinettists of striking sensibility, but where Janet Hilton's romanticism is soft-grained...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1984

Valery Gergiev - You Cannot Start Without Me

The UK election campaign has lately shown how a little stage-managed honesty requires more active interpretation than the usual parade...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 8/2010

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