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The Cradle of the Renaissance

Nowadays, the Italian repertory of fifteenth-century secular music is better known through the reworkings of visiting foreigners like Isaac and...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 1/1996

Pergolesi Stabat Mater; A. Scarlatti Concerti grossi

With the King's Consort's splendid Hyperion recording of Pergolesi's Stabat mater still fresh in my memory, this heavy-handed, sentimentalized performance...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1989

R Strauss Daphne

Had Reining's best years not coincided with the war she would surely be rated even more highly than she is...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1995

Pasquini Keyboard Works

It was Ercole Pasquini’s dismissal from the post of organist at St Peter’s in Rome that led to the appointment...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 9/2003

François Couperin Harpsichord Works

Once again, battle royal is waged between Rousset and Baumont in their ongoing complete Couperin series. For the public it...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 3/1995

Frieda Hempel (1885-1955)

The collector's eye (used to flicking through lists of contents to see whether there is anything new under the sun)...

Reviewed in issue 3/1994

Escobar Requiem

Pedro de Escobar’s polyphonic setting of the Requiem Mass is the earliest extant from the Iberian peninsula, and among the...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 11/1998

Britten Prince of the Pagodas; McPhee Tabuh-Tabuhan

It was in 1939 that Benjamin Britten first met the Canadian composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist Colin McPhee (1900-64). Having recently...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 1/2004

Gesualdo Responsoria

Gesualdo’s Holy Week Responsories now boast an impressive discography, though surprisingly, none of the Italian ensembles associated with the madrigal...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2009

Sonatas for Flute

The Poulenc Flute Sonata is one of those works which, if you respond to the idiom at all, catch you...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 12/1991

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