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Beethoven Quartet Orchestrations

When the young Leonard Bernstein was a student at Harvard University he went to Dmitri Mitropoulos's first concert with the...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 11/1992

Jerusalem - Gregorian Chant & Early Polyphony from the5th-13th Century

Brigitte Lesne’s all-female team, inspired by Marie-Noel Colette’s exceptional musicological insights, has put together a delightful recital of chant and...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 7/2000

Puccini Madama Butterfly

This CD issue of Manon Lescaut—the third complete set available—is chiefly valuable for the beautiful performance of Montserrat Caballe as...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1987

(The) Complete New English Hymnal, Volume 6

Four cathedrals and one school chapel have contributed to the series so far; now it is the turn of the...

Reviewed in issue 5/2002

Biber/Locke/Zelenka Chamber Works

Having firmly established itself at the forefront of modern Vivaldi performance, Il Giardino Armonico explores two masters from the previous...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 2/1999

(The) Chopin Album

Refreshingly direct and unidiosyncractic in manner‚ Gergely Bogányi’s F minor Ballade has poetry and sweep in commendable measure and judicious...

Reviewed in issue 9/2002

Corp, R Piano Concerto No. 1; Symphony No. 1

Ronald Corp has established a formidable reputation as a conductor, particularly of choirs, notably of children’s choirs. Yet increasingly, Corp...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/2010

Menotti Martin's Lie & Songs

Martin’s Lie is a short (44-minute) opera for performance in churches. It is set in the fourteenth century and much...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1998

Fiorenza Concerti per Flauto; Trio Sonatas

Nobody knows much about Nicola (or Niccolo as the record company has him) Fiorenza: he taught in a Naples conservatory...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/2004

Emma Luart

Here is a new label, one that deserves an initial welcome and, if it continues to produce discs of this...

Reviewed in issue 4/1997

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