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Balada Piano Concerto No. 3; Concierto Magico

The booklet cover picture of Gaudí’s cathedral is apt. Leonardo Balada was born in 1933 in Barcelona‚ where he graduated...

Reviewed in issue 11/2001

Stabat mater - Late Medieval Motets of Penitence & Passion

This is the debut recording of Cantores, a mixed English choir of about 16, originally from Exeter. Penitential music is...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 1/2000

Hol Symphonies 1 & 3

A respected figure in his native Netherlands, Richard Hol (or Rijk Holle) was known in his lifetime (1825-1904) largely as...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/2000

Berlioz/Debussy/Ravel Song Cycles

They slip out of view so easily, these singers who not long ago lit up our horizons whenever a new...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Holliger Vocal Works

This pair of early works by Heinz Holliger (b. 1939) shows what could happen when a Boulez pupil sought to...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/1994

Pergolesi Stabat Mater; Salve Regina

Somewhat to my astonishment, there are now more than two dozen recordings of Pergolesi’s Stabat mater (including treasurable performances by...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 1/1998

Sing, ye Heavens

The Service was the Lord’s; anthem, canticles, psalms and responsories were the choir’s; and the hymns were anybody’s. That (roughly)...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/2000

Britten Cello Suites

In reviewing Pieter Wispelwey's complete recording of the Bach solo suites (4/92) I expressed reservations over numerous aspects of his...

Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 8/1992

Sibelius Symphonies Nos 2 & 5

In the pantheon of essential Sibelius recordings, Barbirolli’s October 1962 account of the Second Symphony with the RPO deservedly occupies...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/2008

Brahms Symphonies 1-4

European Brahms symphony cycles have an irritating habit of creeping on to the British CD market unnoticed (neither Kurt Sanderling’s...

Reviewed in issue 10/1998

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