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Byrd/Gibbons/Sweelinck Keyboard Works

''Orlando Gibbons is my favourite composer, always has been. '' The speaker is, of course, Glenn Gould whose pronouncements, musical...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/1993

Evelyn Glennie - Shadow Behind the Iron Sun

Evelyn Glennie has never been afraid to take risks. Her concert programmes and recordings challenge the conventions of classical music...

Reviewed by mharry in issue: 9/2000

Dufay Motets

Following up their success with Dufay’s recently discovered Mass for St Anthony of Padua (Archiv, 9/96), Pomerium now present the...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 10/1997

Tangos y historias

My initial impression of Freidemann Eichhorn’s playing – on an all-Piazzolla disc, also on Hänssler – was mostly unfavourable: his...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 1/2010

(Le) Concert des Violes

Like its English counterpart, 17th-century French viol consort music is largely made up of fantasies and dances. Only a tiny...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 5/2010

Scarlatti, D Stabat Mater; Te Deum; Magnificat

Despite the choice of Stabat mater for its title, this disc owes its special attractiveness more to the programme as...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/2003

Debussy and Ravel String Quartets

These players formed their ensemble in 1979, were awarded a Leverhulme Scholarship to study with Sidney Griller at the Royal...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 1/1987

Thomas (La) Cour de Célimène

It seems that Opera Rara may have done it again. Convinced that many a plum still lies hidden in the...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/2008

Bruch Scottish Fantasy. Lalo Symphonie espagnole

It is an excellent idea to couple Bruch’s evocation of Scotland with Lalo’s of Spain, both works in unconventional five-movement...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1997

Berg Wozzeck

Seeing Patrice Chereau’s riveting production of Wozzeck at the Staatsoper, Berlin, where the work had its premiere in 1925, adds...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1997

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