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Palestrina Motets & Masses, Vol 1

Following on from their recording of Masses based on madrigals by Cipriano da Rore (Stradivarius, 12/97), Delitiae Musicae continue their...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 7/1998

Martinu Orchestral Works

As a window on Martinu's world, few discs in my experience have offered a better vantage point. From La rhapsodie...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 6/1991

Shostakovich Hamlet

The Shostakovich film scores can seem interchangeable with their generic waltz numbers and fanfares but Hamlet is made of sterner...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 6/2004

Haydn The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross

Haydn’s Seven Last Words was designed for performance in Holy Week, in the Santa Cueva grotto in Cadiz, with discourses...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 7/2000

Mozart Keyboard Works

This is big playing. Those who abhor prettified Mozart should derive much satisfaction from it. Mozart's miscellaneous keyboard works cannot...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 10/1986

Boccherini Piano Quintets

In the closing years of the eighteenth century Boccherini, who had written most of his vast output of chamber music...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 12/1992

Leonard Bernstein

To celebrate what would have been Leonard Bernstein’s 90th birthday, Medici Arts has appended some previously unreleased Franck and Milhaud...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2008

Schnittke Symphony 7 & Cello Concerto 1

After his catastrophic stroke in the summer of 1985 Alfred Schnittke’s music changed radically, becoming violently expressionistic and often brutally...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/2000

Dufay Chansons

Tetraktys is an early music quartet headed by singer Jill Feldman and recorder-player Kees Boeke, neither of whom requires introduction....

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 8/2009

Karlsen - Dolente

Kjell Mørk Karlsen (b1947) is nothing if not eclectic as a composer. His early output was dominated by the liturgical,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 2/2003

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