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Spanish Sixteenth-Century Instrumental Music

Antonio de Cabezon is one of those characters who appear in the history books for entirely the wrong reasons. We...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 1/1987

Tye/Sheppard Sacred Choral Works

David Wulstan's love affair with sixteenth-century English polyphony has been a longstanding and a lasting one: he founded the Clerkes...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 5/1990

Brahms Symphony No 1; Beethoven Egmont Overture

Memorable performances of Beethoven’s superb Egmont Overture are rarer than one might imagine but this Thielemann performance is exceptional, as...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/2007

Hindemith/Walton Orchestral Works

Although Ormandy's 1962 recording of the Mathis der Maler Symphony has taken three decades to reach these shores, this is...

Reviewed in issue 4/1994

Miliza Korjus - The Berlin Nightingale

Dame Joan Sutherland recalled that as a teenager one of the formative influences on her career was seeing Miliza Korjus...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 8/1996

Schubert Schwanengesang

The close creative partnership between Mark Padmore and Paul Lewis is immediately heard in the opening “Liebesbotschaft”, Schubert’s last, and...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 13/2011

17th Century Bel Canto

When precisely the term bel canto came into use I have been unable to verify, though James Tyler in his...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1985

Quilter Complete Songbook, Vol 1

Complete editions for all. The day is not so far off, and, among eligible minor composers, Quilter has two assets...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 13/2007

Works by Le Jeune

This is a most engaging and not at all recherche recording of late renaissance vocal and instrumental music. The clement...

Reviewed in issue 5/1986

Schumann Liederkreis

Though the catch-all title “Melancholie” is slightly misleading, Christian Gerhaher’s enterprisingly planned programme provides a conspectus of Schumann’s art as...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 7/2008

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