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Salve Reyna

Capilla Penaflorida is a group based in the Basque region, with quite an extensive career behind it. It specialises in...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 4/2000

Brahms Piano Quintet, Op 34; Henze Piano Quintet

Henze’s Piano Quintet, written in 1990-1, responds with relish to the familiar disparities of the medium. In three relatively compact...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 5/1999

Scriabin Prometheus. Piano Concerto. Fantasy

Chandos’s annotator Hugh Macdonald reminds us that Scriabin believed his music would ‘usher in the new millennium’. Listening now to...

Reviewed in issue 11/1999

Brahms Symphony 4; Academic Festival Overture

This is a refreshingly direct reading of Brahms's Fourth Symphony treated to refined if rather recessed digital recording. Anyone who...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1985

Elisabeth Schumann sings favourite Schubert Lieder

Welcome as spring's return, Elisabeth Schumann refreshes and charms now as she did in her lifetime, and only a very...

Reviewed in issue 3/1986

Fiesta Criolla

Having already issued vivid recordings for Chandos of relatively well known works by Piazzolla, Ginastera and others, Castagna now turns...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2011

Brahms Choral Works

These are wonderful pieces, which, hearing, you would suppose to be all heart, looking at, you think must be all...

Reviewed in issue 5/1996

Vocal and Chamber Works

When I met Karita Mattila recently, she enthused at length about recording Starlit Night (''Stjarnenatten''): sentiments reciprocated by composer Jouni...

Reviewed in issue 8/1993

Schubert (The) Impromptus

Greatly celebrated in his native Italy, Andrea Lucchesini is a less familiar figure on the London scene. His live recording...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2010

Williams (El) Diablo Suelto

Thanks to the work of some fine proselytisers over the years, we’ve grown to view the guitar, one of the...

Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 12/2003

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