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Tavener (The) Protecting Veil; Last Sleep of the Virgin

There are now five recordings of Tavener’s The Protecting Veil available on CD – a worthy indication of a contemporary...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 2/1999

Pärt; Palestrina Missa Papae Marcelli

Apart from the fact that this is simply heavenly singing and the music absolutely divine, there seems no earthly reason...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 1/2012

Dittersdorf 6 Symphonies after Ovid's Metamorphoses

Dittersdorf's Six Symphonies after Ovid's Metamorphoses, written about the time of Haydn's ''Paris'' Symphonies and Mozart's Prague Symphony, are less...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/1990

Liszt Anness de Pelerinage, Italie; Venezia e Napoli

Book 2 of Liszt’s Années de pèlerinage celebrates an impassioned‚ indeed delirious‚ response to Italy’s poetry and art. Both the...

Reviewed in issue 9/2001

Satie Piano Works, Vol 4

In 1968, the composer Robert Caby edited and published a number of Satie’s manuscript sketches and short pieces. He had...

Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 3/2004

R.Strauss: 8 Lieder and Metamorphosen

No Strauss devotee will need prompting from me to acquire Clemens Krauss's interpretation of Metamorphosen. This elegiac masterpiece came to...

Reviewed in issue 9/1988

Schubert Winterreise

Neither of these accounts of Winterreise is the one I would have chosen to represent the respective singer. In the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/2003

Pergolesi Stabat Mater; Salve Regina in C minor

Pergolesi's setting of the Stabat mater was commissioned, probably by the Neapolitan brotherhood of the Cavalieri della Vergine dei dolori,...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1990

Guarnieri Piano Concertos Nos 1 - 3

This is a most encouraging issue. In the wake of BIS’s continuing series of Mozart Camargo Guarnieri’s symphonies, Naxos –...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 5/2005

Corelli Concerti Grossi, Volume 1

There are for most of us definitive interpretations of familiar works, some of them live, some recorded. We can never...

Reviewed in issue 9/1996

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