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English Orchestral Songs

This is an attractive disc, comprising two dozen English songs with orchestral accompaniment, all (except the Finzi cycle) composed in...

Reviewed in issue 1/1990

Albéniz: Piano Works

Written during Albeniz's last three years, Iberia is his masterwork for the piano. And the full extent of the journey...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1988

Bach St John Passion

Here is another St John Passion to take its place alongside a strong and plentiful recorded competition. Ludwig Guttler, the...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1999

Janácek (The) Eternal Gospel; (The) Excursions of Mr Broucek Suite

Fans of the Glagolitic Mass should definitely make a beeline for Janácek’s 1913 cantata The Eternal Gospel. Radiating a comparable...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2005

Claudio Abbado - Hearing the Silence

Paul Smaczny’s documentary of the man once dubbed “the silent thinker” garnered several international awards on its original release in...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 4/2011

Gautier de Coincy Miracles of Notre-Dame

There are so many difficulties for performers of Gautier de Coincy. Quite aside from the problems of all monophonic song...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 7/2003

Vaughan Williams Partsongs

With the warmest possible welcome for the programme and with all admiration for the Holst Singers on their past achievements,...

Reviewed in issue 2/1996

French and Belgian Violin Works

Isabelle van Keulen was the winner of the Eurovision Young Musician of the Year contest in Geneva in May 1984,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1988

Haydn Cello Concertos

You could call the C major Concerto cellist Joseph Weigl’s calling-card. Like Haydn, he too had been engaged by the...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 9/2010

Sibelius The Maiden in the Tower; Karelia

I have already discussed the provenance of this opera at some length last October and will not repeat more than...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1985

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