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Cornysh/Prentes/Turges Sacred Choral Works

The Cardinall’s Musick have gone from strength to strength in recent recordings. Successive releases have brought increased solidity and breadth,...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 9/1997

Francesco Corbetta - (A) guitarist from Pavia across Europe

After having heard the guitarist Francesco Corbetta (1615-81), who was then in the service of Charles II, Samuel Pepys noted...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 3/2007

Poulenc Mélodies

These two performers won the Francis Poulenc Prize in the Paris International Song Competition in 1999. Among their many virtues...

Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 11/2002

Carissimi (4) Oratorios

Giacomo Carissimi (1605-74) spent almost his entire life near or in Rome and pioneered the genre of sacred music drama...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2010

Gluck Orphée et Eurydice

Orphée et Eurydice is performed in the arrangement that Berlioz made in 1859 for the French mezzo-soprano Pauline Viardot. He...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 6/2009

Virtuoso Trumpet Concertos

There is a profusion of collections of trumpet concertos currently available by a number of virtuosos, including Maurice Andre and,...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1989

Schumann (The) Symphonies

Both David Zinman and Daniel Barenboim have recorded Schumann’s symphonies before, Barenboim in Chicago in the late 1970s, Zinman in...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 5/2004

Liszt Piano Works

It is to be expected that an artist who has made one of the outstanding recordings of the Liszt concertos...

Reviewed in issue 10/1991

Handel Joshua

Hot on the heels of Peter Neumann’s recent version (MDG, 1/09), here is a live recording of Joshua made at...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 8/2009

McEnery (The) Resurrection

Here is a difficult one, the difficulty lying in the ease, and (since we are dealing in paradoxes) that being...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/2008

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