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American Choral Works

When Walter Hussey, then Dean of Chichester, commissioned a work from Leonard Bernstein for the 1965 Chichester Festival, he stipulated...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 9/1987

Cecilia & Bryn

Splendidly well-matched duettists, Bartoli and Terfel (or are we on Christian-name terms even in review?) are as vivid a pair...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/1999

Schumann Symphony Nos 1 & 2

As I listened to the breezy cadenza for horns, clarinet and flute at 5'09" into the finale of the Spring...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 9/2008

Schubert Lieder

What new can one say about the Protean achievement enshrined in this essential reissue? One stands amazed again before the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1993

Composers of our Time - Werner Henze

‘Memoirs of an Outsider’ was first shown on BBC2, if I recall, in 2001 to mark the composer’s 75th birthday....

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 7/2003

Shostakovich Piano Works

Shostakovich's piano music has not enjoyed anything like the same success on record as Prokofiev's—maybe it is simply not anything...

Reviewed in issue 9/1992

Rubinstein Piano Sonatas 1 & 3

It is hard to understand why this music never found a place in the repertoire; the Third and Fourth Sonatas,...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 5/1990

Debussy/Ravel Orchestral Works

Karajan's mid-1960s DG recordings of these works still provide formidable competition for all newcomers and are coupled on a mid-price...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/1990

Laudario di Cortona

This is a fine selection of laude from the Cortona collection, illustrating the principal events in the life of Christ....

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 8/1996

Palestrina Music for Holy Saturday

This outstanding recording of ‘Music for Holy Saturday’ opens with two lessons from the third of Palestrina’s four settings of...

Reviewed in issue 7/2002

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