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Motets

As the declared intention of this disc is to ''reveal the vast acoustic environment of the Cathedral Church of St...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 1/1993

Simon Holt Chamber Works

Simon Holt says of Shadow realm that it is ''music to accompany a haunting''. This could apply equally well to...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 5/1993

Copland Sextet; Piano Quartet

This fine collection of Copland’s small output of chamber music offers the first British recording of Movement, a characteristically introspective...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 10/2000

Voices of our Time - Grace Bumbry

‘Does she still sing?’ That was Helmut Deutsch’s first question on learning that he had been invited to accompany Grace...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 13/2004

Nikolayeva plays Bach

We don't always enter by the front door: my own entry into Bach's world over 50 years ago was via...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 9/1992

Biber Mensa Sonora

Mensa Sonora, published in Salzburg in 1680, is scored for four-part strings and basso continuo. It consists of six suites...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 3/2008

Augustin Hadelich

Augustin Hadelich (born 1984) has already won acclaim for his recordings of Haydn and Telemann. Now he tackles a programme...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 12/2009

W. Lawes The Royall Consort Suites

There has been an increasing interest in William Lawes's consort music over the last few years, an entirely justifiable state...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/1995

Vaughan Williams Symphony No 4

This excellent new disc in the Naxos Vaughan Williams series brings together three contrasting parts of the composer’s musical personality:...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2004

Dyson The Canterbury Pilgrims, etc

Hearing Dyson’s Canterbury Pilgrims – an open, heartwarming work and a favourite at Three Choirs Festivals in the 1930s –...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1997

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