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Rachmaninov Vespers

With choirs of many nationalities now including Rachmaninov’s All-Night Vigil (or Vespers) in their repertories, and half a dozen ‘foreign’...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/1999

Ravel Vocal & Chamber Works

I slightly wonder about the order in which the four works are placed here, with darker-toned music of the 1920s...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 5/1990

Lang Lang - Live in Vienna

First on Telarc, then on DG, the ubiquitous 28-year-old Lang Lang now makes his debut on Sony in a two-disc...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2010

Holten Choral Works

It’s good to see that Bo Holten’s choral music has merited an entire disc to itself, and since he has...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 5/2004

Spectrum - 50 Contemporary Works for Solo Piano

This is an impressive successor to Myers’s two previous discs – ‘British Piano Music of the 1980s’ on Libra and...

Reviewed in issue 10/1999

Scarlatti, A Vespro della Beata Vergine

This is not “a” Scarlatti Vespers. These five psalms, hymn and Magnificat have been drawn from more than one source...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 1/2011

Merula Canzoni e Sonate

Best not to ask why, but the instrumental music of the early baroque puts me in mind of those little...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 13/1999

Vivaldi Salve Regina, RV617; Vocal Works

Suzie LeBlanc’s amiable account of Vivaldi’s Laudate pueri (RV601, composed for Dresden in about 1730) joins the top-class recordings of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 1/2007

Puccini Tosca

This production dates from 1960 and those naive times when people believed that Tosca was set in Scarpia’s Rome (not...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/2005

Svso in Italia Bella

I wonder to what extent the increasing prominence of all-female (or nearly all-female) vocal ensembles on the early music scene...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 9/1996

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