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Josquin Desprez Masses

Following their highly successful recording of Josquin's Missa Pange Lingua, The Tallis Scholars have returned to the undisputed master of...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 7/1989

Curiale Awakening

Gates of Gold sets the hardy tale of Chinese immigration to California during the Gold Rush. It starts out like...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: /2000

Mravinsky conducts... (including free CD interview & rehearsal)

The Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra's reputation has long been out of all proportion to its representation on record, at least in...

Reviewed in issue 6/1992

Bach Cantatas

The last 18 months have been enlightening and sobering ones for listeners who have been collecting, in encouragingly plentiful numbers,...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/1994

Hermann Film Music

There is much to savour here: the thrilling sense of spectacle engendered in the brazen Prelude to The Man Who...

Reviewed in issue 1/1997

Saygun Complete String Quartets

The CPO label has already given us five symphonies by Ahmed Adnan Saygun (1907-91), probably the premier Turkish composer of...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 7/2006

Liszt Piano Concertos, etc

As a teenager in the 1940s, Byron Janis studied with Horowitz for three years and has a sure technique and...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1991

Musica Sacra Inessa Galante

The market may have something to say about this. The first track and the last are just the sort of...

Reviewed in issue 9/1997

Dvorak; Haas; Schulhoff (The) Bohemian Album

Though only Dvorák’s Serenade is familiar here, and is given a performance of great friendliness and charm, a firm historical...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 1/2010

Sibelius Symphonies Nos 4 & 7

This EMI issue offers absolutely first-class sound with splendid definition and range. I wrote at length about the performances on...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 1/1987

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