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Taverner Sacred Choral Works

Taverner's St William Mass, his Missa S(ancti) Wil(helmi)—a more probable title than its hitherto enigmatic ''Small Devotion''—as well as the...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 4/1992

Elgar Orchestral Works

In 1980 a very young and impressionable cellist, by the name of Robert Cohen, bowed in with a recording of...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 6/1993

Duetti da camera

Philippe Jaroussky and Max Emanuel Cencic possess a command of a slightly higher tessitura than the alto-bound majority of countertenors....

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 1/2012

Vainberg Chamber Symphonies Nos 1 & 4

The prolific Vainberg’s chamber symphonies are sometimes no more ‘chamber’ than his other symphonies: rather engagingly, he confessed that he...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/1999

Mozart Exsultate Jubilate!

I do not know if it was just me but a lot of the televised events of the Mozart anniversary...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 5/2006

Bartók Orchestral Works

A crucial shortcoming with most recorded performances of the Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta concerns tempo: in all cases...

Reviewed in issue 5/1996

A Gift of Nature - 17th Century English Chamber Music

The contents of these two discs of English seventeenth-century chamber music may look alike, but no one finding themselves in...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 5/1994

Allegri Miserere; Palestrina Missa Papae Marcelli

It’s about 25 years since the Tallis Scholars’ debut recording, which included the Pope Marcellus Mass and Allegri’s Miserere; and...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 4/2007

Goldschmidt Chamber Works

Despite many successes as a composer—which include the prize-winning opera Beatrice Cenci in the 1951 Festival of Britain competition but...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1992

George London - Great Singers of the Century

Canadian-born, of Russian parentage and brought up in Los Angeles, George London attracted international attention in 1949 when he made...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 1/2001

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