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Dufay Mass: Ecce ancilla Domini

Dufay's four-voice Ecce ancilla Domini Mass was probably composed in the early 1460s. The three-voice Mass Proper cycle De angelis...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/1994

Coronation Music for King James II

The coronation of a Roman Catholic king in Westminster Abbey in 1685 involved recasting the service so as not to...

Reviewed in issue 7/1987

Ferenc Fricsay - A Portrait

Roughly half of this set is strongly recommendable—and even the half that isn't is still well worth hearing. Ferenc Fricsay...

Reviewed in issue 11/1994

Puccini Tosca

In March 2000 Riccardo Muti conducted a staged performance of Tosca for the first time, only the second Puccini opera...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/2003

Jubilee

Listening again to Marriner's beautifully graceful, cantabile account of Apollon, I was reminded more than once of what Stravinsky said...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1985

Taneyev Symphonies Nos 1 & 3

There are plenty of pre-Soviet Russian symphonies awaiting disinterment, but none by a more major historical figure than these two....

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 6/2007

Rachmaninov All-Night Vigil

With four recently issued or reissued discs of Rachmaninov's Vespers—by Sveshnikov, Polianski (both Le Chant du Monde/Harmonia Mundi), Robev (Sound...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1989

Josquin Desprez: Secular music

This record contains all the three-part music now thought to survive from Josquin. There are also two that that influential...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 12/1985

Tallis - Music for the Divine Office, Volume 1

Tallis is one of those composers of whom one never tires: fresh discoveries are made at each new listening. The...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 4/2000

Duparc/Chausson Mélodies

The discerning collector of French melodies will know to avoid most of the recordings made by Gerard Souzay after about...

Reviewed in issue 9/1994

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