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Vivaldi Sacred Music, Vol. 3

Hardly had I finished reviewing Vol. 2 (see above) in Vittorio Negri's series of Vivaldi's sacred music for solo voices...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1992

Nova Metamorfosi

Erudite as this programme may appear, Vincent Dumestre has cooked up a ravishing, if partly speculative dish of late 16th...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2003

Indy Orchestral Music

The real find here is Souvenirs, a haunting, imaginatively scored tone-poem that d'Indy composed in 1906 in remembrance of his...

Reviewed in issue 9/1993

Mozart Opera Overtures

The nine overtures on this bright-sounding CD are all approached as genuine and individual curtain-raisers, with sensible pauses in between....

Reviewed in issue 4/1984

Arnold Symphonies Nos. 7, 8 & 9. Oboe Concerto

No sooner have Naxos rounded off their Arnold symphony cycle with a first­rate coupling of the Symphonies Nos 7 and...

Reviewed in issue 13/2001

Pärt: Orchestral Works

A fine new disc in celebration of Pärt’s 75th birthday, with world premiere recordings of the Stabat mater in choral-orchestral...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 13/2010

Bach Oboe Concertos

There is plenty of sound musicological evidence to support the theory that Bach had the oboe in mind as a...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1984

In Excelsis

This largely admirable set gets off to a rather unpromising start. Higginbottom suggests that Giles Swayne’s Magnificat links ‘the highly...

Reviewed in issue 10/2002

Bernstein Dybbuk; Fancy Free

If when Jerome Robbins and the New York City Ballet commissioned Dybbuk from Leonard Bernstein they were expecting a populist...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 2/2007

Byrd; Tallis Cantiones Sacrae

This claims to be the first complete recording in the original order of the 1575 Cantiones sacrae, the volume of...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 3/2011

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