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Review of Bach; Buxtehude German Baroque Cantatas

Bach; Buxtehude German Baroque Cantatas

All good marketing principles cast aside, Gli Angeli Genève have assembled five magnificent cantatas from contrasting 17th- and 18th-century North...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2008

Review of Grainger Original Works for Piano

Grainger Original Works for Piano

This is the most enjoyable and convincing piece of advocacy for Percy Grainger's music that I have heard for a...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1990

Review of Schubert (orch Reger) Songs

Schubert (orch Reger) Songs

Max Reger’s orchestral arrangements of 15 Schubert Lieder, made in 1913-14, are essentially period pieces. The big dramatic songs are...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 4/1999

Review of Maconchy Music for Voices

Maconchy Music for Voices

This well filled conspectus was made last year, Dame Elizabeth Maconchy’s centenary year. Her compositions, never less than civilised, prove...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 4/2008

Review of Sullivan HMS Pinafore

Sullivan HMS Pinafore

Based on last July’s Royal Festival Hall production – with one cast change – this new HMS Pinafore’s most distinctive...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 7/2000

Review of Kreisler  Violin Works

Kreisler Violin Works

It’s wonderful how Kreisler’s short pieces for violin and piano continue to hold a fascination for violinists and listeners. Other...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 2/2004

Review of Conyngham Orchestral Works

Conyngham Orchestral Works

Here are two large-scale works from either end of the 1980s by the Australian composer Barry Conyngham (b. 1944), performed...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/1994

Review of Modes of the Modes: Masses by Ockeghem

Modes of the Modes: Masses by Ockeghem

This second CD from Peter Urquhart’s American ensemble brings some more of Ockeghem’s Masses to the catalogue – The Clerks’...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/1997

Review of Hans Hermann Nissen (1893-1980)

Hans Hermann Nissen (1893-1980)

An elementary remark, but the immediate reaction to the first sound of the voice is simply ''This man is a...

Reviewed in issue 12/1995

Review of Vivaldi: Violin Concertos

Vivaldi: Violin Concertos

The cleanest and often also the gentlest of violin-playing; Perlman, no stranger to large-scale concertos, adapts very readily to a...

Reviewed in issue 12/1984


 

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