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Canto Mediterraneo

For this reissue‚ Naïve have ‘re­concepted’ the packaging from the sober‚ standard early­music artwork which accompanied its original release on...

Reviewed in issue 5/2002

The Best of British Song

The cheery title (''Best of British'') is fairly well supported by the contents. Purcell can strike profounder notes than these;...

Reviewed in issue 7/1994

Demantius Vêpres de Pentecoste

Christophorus Demantius was born and died in exactly the same years as Monteverdi, but there the similarities stop. A Bohemian...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/2000

T. Wishart Vox 1-6

Vox consists of six pieces composed over an eight year period. Like Wishart's Anticredos (1980), which I found ''extraordinarily diverse...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/1990

Kokkonen Orchestral Works

The repackaging by BIS in a slimline two-disc set of their Lahti orchestra cycle of all four Kokkonen symphonies, conducted...

Reviewed in issue 6/1997

Schumann Complete Symphonies Nos 1-4

The “big” news here is that Frank Beermann uses “the ‘Urtext’ of the new Schumann Symphony edition by Joachim Draheim”....

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2010

Bax Orchestral Works

Michael Berkeley's Clarinet Concerto, written for Emma Johnson in 1991, represents a new generation of this always-accessible composer's music. If...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1994

Llibre vermell de Montserrat

Alla Francesca are a newly formed group of singers and instrumentalists, dedicated to the study and performance of early music...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 12/1995

Donizetti Lucie de Lammermoor

In 1839, Donizetti considerably altered his Lucia for Paris. For the rest of the 19th century, it was the regularly...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/2004

Brahms/Schumann Piano Trios

Though the Beaux Arts Trio bravely included the Piano Trio in A, Op. posth. in their Philips set of the...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1992

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