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Byrd: Songs of Sundrie Natures

The 'gimmick' here is that the singers use Elizabethan pronunciation. So Byrd's lament for the death of Tallis opens with...

Reviewed in issue 6/1988

Hanson: Orchestral Works

Hanson conducts as he composes: with a will. He powers us through the Nordic stress and strife, the craggy wind-swept...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 2/1991

Haydn Symphonies Nos 60, 88 and 96

It always astonishes me that Haydn had to write 96 symphonies before one of them was christened the “Miracle”. There...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2009

Brahms Alto Rhapsody

These are animated, purposeful performances – and one might almost imagine that one of the purposes was to persuade the...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/2010

Beethoven String Quartet, Op. 132

There are two recent alternative accounts of this Quartet on single LPs: an HMV recording by the Alban Berg Quartet...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 4/1986

Bruckner/Reger Motets

These seven a cappella motets by Bruckner have been recorded many times before. As well they might. They are simple...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/1997

Ives Twelves Songs by Charles Ives

The California-based modern jazz quintet Kneebody, with singer Theo Bleckmann, was invited to Munich by Kent Nagano to perform songs...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 5/2009

Donizetti/Cimarosa Operas

This has never, as far as I can recall, been a highly-rated recording of Don Pasquale: in the original Gramophone...

Reviewed in issue 10/1992

Schumann Symphonies Nos 1 & 2

Two more of Mike Dutton’s miraculous transfers. I don’t seem to remember either of these recordings being among Decca’s ffrr...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/2000

Dove Flight

Better not read Rodney Milnes’s introduction first or you’ll never know what you really think. He is so persuasively enthusiastic...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/2004

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