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Ockeghem Missa Mi-Mi

It is gratifying that the increasing flow of recordings of Ockeghem’s Masses shows no sign of abating in the aftermath...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 2/1999

Gerhard Symphony No 2; Concerto for Orchestra

Gerhard’s Concerto for Orchestra was an instant success at the 1965 Cheltenham Festival, which had commissioned it. Its avowed purpose...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 5/1999

Somervell Maud; A Shropshire Lad

These are fine performances of what, with all deference to Stephen Banfield's excellent notes and MEO's enthusiastic first review, I...

Reviewed in issue 6/1991

Beethoven Fidelio

With understandable elation a conductor friend reported to me a little while back that his record company might let him...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1991

Mozart Piano Concertos

Here, taken live from Munich in 1986, is Mozart played and conducted by music’s ultimate maverick. It was, after all,...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/2006

Mozart Piano Concertos

This must surely be the most appealing of all versions of the delectable K488 Concerto on CD. Roger Norrington brings...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 11/1992

Massenet Manon

Doubts were expressed when Gilbert Deflo’s production of Manon was new in 1997: could a work which has its natural...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 1/2004

Christa Ludwig: Historical Recordings

In the early 1960s it really seemed as if Ludwig was going to transform herself into a dramatic soprano. First...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1998

Missa Mexicana

The Mass at the centre of this recording is the Missa Ego flos campi by Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, a...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 4/2003

Mendelssohn & Saint-Saëns Violin Concertos

This outstanding CBS issue was one of my Critic's Choices last December, and it makes an excellent CD with the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1985

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