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Warlock Songs

Here are 32 songs by Peter Warlock, ranging from The Wind from the West, composed when he was 17, to...

Reviewed in issue 2/1989

Peñalosa Missa Nunca fue pena mayor

Francisco de Peñalosa (c1470-1528) has suffered from the relative neglect of the Spanish polyphony composed just before the golden era...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 9/2011

Penderecki Violin Concerto; Horn Concerto

Penderecki’s First Violin Concerto was written in 1976-77, a time when compositional styles were becoming increasingly polarised between simplicity, whether...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/2010

Mozart Keyboard Concertos

This record inaugurates a new series of Mozart piano concertos on period instruments. Robert Levin will be familiar to Mozartians,...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 7/1994

Nielsen Complete Piano Works

Nielsen composed for the piano on and off throughout his life. Yet these pieces can hardly be considered representative of...

Reviewed in issue 12/1987

Coates Orchestral Works

Marvellous as rediscovery of a wider range of British light orchestral composers has been, this CD makes one appreciate afresh...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 8/2005

Ponchielli La Gioconda

''Nobody could fail to be caught up in its conviction'' is what I wrote when this set was last reissued...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1988

Schoenberg String Trio; Suite for Septet

Most of the music on this disc was composed between 1925 and 1930, when Schoenberg was at his most inspired...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/2010

Satie Piano Works, Vol. 3

Volume 1 of Anne Queffelec's Satie series, which has such familiar pieces as the Gymnopedies and Gnossiennes, came out four...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 8/1993

Baroque Choral Works

Ashkenazy's Chopin was one of the treasures of the Decca catalogue in the 1970s, and the combining of the four...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/2000

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