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Scarlatti, D Stabat Mater; Scarlati, A Missa Breve; Six Motets

Alessandro Scarlatti’s Missa breve, e concertata a cinque voci is a double-choir Mass that dates from his time as maestro...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2009

Schneiderhan plays Beethoven

Wolfgang Schneiderhan’s first commercial recording of the Beethoven Concerto (under Paul van Kempen, for DG) was long considered a benchmark:...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2007

Pulling out the stops!

Ole Edvard Antonsen came to my attention, initially, in an accomplished disc of trumpet concertos with the English Chamber Orchestra...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/1994

Daugherty Orchestral Works

If 20th-century American music currently has a better friend than Naxos I can’t think who it is. This volume in...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 13/2004

Pergolesi Stabat Mater; Orfeo

The pictorial illustration chosen for the insert-notes is a detail from a Crucifixion by Grunewald, but it is a far...

Reviewed in issue 7/1995

Strozzi Cantatas and Songs

This is not the first recording to focus on the music of Barbara Strozzi, but it is surely the most...

Reviewed in issue 10/1989

Beniamino Gigli

Still the supremely beautiful sound among tenors since Caruso's time still a completely distinctive character among singers; Gigli makes one...

Reviewed in issue 9/1988

German Romantic Arias

Mattila’s new recital is notable for its exploration of some rarities in addition to more familiar repertory in the German...

Reviewed in issue 8/2002

Elgar Orchestral Works

A trim, at times, almost balletic Falstaff. If that seems a ludicrous contradiction, I should explain that it refers to...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/1991

Bach Mass in B minor

This is the second recording of Bach's B minor Mass to be directed by Peter Schreier. The earlier one, on...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1992

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