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Mozart Edition, Vol.27

Here is a solidly presented disc accompanied by a 95-page booklet, comprising Vol. 27 of the Philips Complete Mozart Edition....

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 5/1992

F. Couperin: Motets

For all the resurgence of interest in church music of the French Baroque we still hear astonishingly little of Couperin's...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 5/1985

Martinu & Ravel Chamber Works

It was an ingenious idea to couple parallel works by these two composers, all the more as Martinu, at the...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 6/1996

Holmboe Preludes for Sinfonietta, Volume 1

The information on these discs might lead many to assume Holmboe had written an Alkan­like sequence of preludes‚ of which...

Reviewed in issue 12/2001

Villa-Lobos Cello Concertos 1 & 2

If the First Cello Concerto here fails to sound much like other Villa-Lobos works you may know, it's because it...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1989

Lully Grand Motets, Vol. 3

During the second half of the 17th century and early 18th, the music of Jean-Baptiste Lully and the ceremonial, theatrical...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 12/2000

Maconchy (The) Sofa; (The) Departure

Composed respectively in 1957 and 1961, these Maconchy mini-operas were revived last year by the privately funded Independent Opera group....

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 5/2009

Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues

Tatyana Nikolaieva was in at the birth of Shostakovich's Preludes and Fugues, and she made them one of the corner-stones...

Reviewed in issue 2/1995

Terzakis Chamber Works

Dimitri Terzakis’s undemonstrative fusion of Greek traditional elements with post-war western techniques gradually takes shape in the works featured here....

Reviewed in issue 12/1998

Delius; Elgar Violin Concertos

Regular readers will know that I’ve often sung the praises of Albert Sammons’ 1929 account of Elgar’s Violin Concerto with...

Reviewed in issue 5/2002

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