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Schubert (The) Therese Grob Songbook - New Perspectives, Vol. 1

‘Recorded here for the first time’ claims the booklet to this new recording‚ referring to the first 17 of the...

Reviewed in issue 9/2001

Estampie - Materia Mystica

Hildegard’s thought, her understanding of the science of her day and, to a certain limited extent, her own very personal...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 3/1999

Wellesz Songs

Excellent news: the revival of interest in the music of Egon Wellesz (who died 30 years ago this year) continues...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 13/2004

Tallis Lamentations and Contrafacta

Two of the Biblical lessons for Maundy Thursday show Tallis at his most creative and imaginative. ‘Incipit lamentatio…’ the rising...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 13/2004

Knightly Passions The Songs of Oswald von Wolkenstein

Oswald von Wolkenstein (d 1445) comes across as one of the most ‘knowable’ characters of the medieval period. That is...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 1/1997

Joplin Piano Rags

In this warmly recorded selection, Peskanov approaches Joplin with the sophisticated mien of the classically trained. Uniquely evocative of their...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 8/2004

Bizet L'Arlésienne & Carmen Suites

This is a splendid account of these four suites, two drawing on Bizet's incidental music to Daudet's play and the...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 6/1988

Pabst; Rimsky-Korsakov; Scriabin Piano Concertos

Danacord has stolen a march on Hyperion’s Romantic Concerto series with the first complete studio recording of the Pabst concerto,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 8/2008

Schumann Piano Works

These two CDs of Murray Perahia's Schumann present well-established performances that have met with virtually universal critical acclaim. The only...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 3/1989

Saint-Saëns Symphony No 3; Carnaval des animaux. Cyprès et Lauriers.

Few pieces of music in the history of the gramophone can have suffered such indignities at the hands of insensitive...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 3/1996

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