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Haydn Missa Sancta Caeciliae

This recording was first issued on two records with a short unimportant fill-up. It is now on one, and the...

Reviewed in issue 10/1986

Smetana The Devil's Wall

The title refers to a group of strangely shaped rocks projecting from the Vltava, according to legend set there by...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1995

Ethel Smyth Piano Works

Ethel Smyth gave up writing piano music at the age of 22, but what we have here is by no...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1996

Lalo/Saint-Saëns/Fauré Cello Works

Judging by the photograph in the booklet, Anne Gastinel is quite youthful, yet remarkably, no information about her is provided....

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1996

Sounds of St Giles

Not Edinburgh but the much smaller Cripplegate, London, and the first recording of its new Mander East organ on which...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 9/2009

Mompou Piano Music Vol. 6

This invaluable disc rounds off Jordi Masó’s cycle of Mompou’s piano music with previously undiscovered pieces. Invaluable not only for...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2011

Wagner Götterdämmerung

The story has already been told of how this sleeping Brunnhilde of a performance has been awakened by the persistent...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1999

Machaut (Les) Motets

Early in 2004 two different recordings of the Machaut motets came out: one was by the Hilliard Ensemble (ECM, 5/04),...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 13/2011

A Gala Concert Live From Sydney Opera House

Sydney harbour‚ Jørn Utzon’s opera house‚ a coolly spacious interior‚ expectation in the air and then – what a pleasant...

Reviewed in issue 2/2002

Oistrakh plays Bach, Brahms and Mozart

I am unclear why ICA Classics say these performances are released on DVD “for the first time.” The Mozart has...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 9/2011

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