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Veni Creator

Continuing their series of recordings of music for the major festivals of the liturgical year, the Nuns of Argentan now...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 1/1985

German Opera Choruses

Most collections of opera choruses are assembled from complete sets, but this one has been specially recorded and is undoubtedly...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1990

The Spanish Guitar (1536-1836)

The two discs are collectively titled ‘The Spanish Guitar (1536-1918)’ and thus cover the evolution of the modern instrument from...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 2/2001

Mussorgsky Orchestral Works

Edward Johnson, who writes the fascinatingly comprehensive notes for this CD had told me (enthusiastically) about the existence of this...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/1993

Shostakovich: Piano Works

Yet another recording of Shostakovich's Second Sonata—the sixth I have reviewed in two years, and still no sign of a...

Reviewed in issue 10/1990

Brahms Piano Quartets Nos 1-3

Not so many months ago the Capuçon brothers gave us a vibrant new reading of Brahms’s Double Concerto (2/08). Now...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 2/2009

Chopin Concertos for Piano and Orchestra Nos 1 and 2

Boris Berezovsky’s new disc of the Chopin concertos enters a crowded field. But if few pianists have shown a more...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/2008

Bach, JS St. John Passion BWV 245

Just as one celebrates the best of those atmospheric recordings of Bach in the 1950s and ’60s from the less...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 1/2011

Schubert Cpte Original Wks for Piano Duet, Vol 6

Piano duets come to life in performance rather than through your speakers; you need to experience them first-hand and feel...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 6/2000

Firenze 1616

Only a few fragments survive of Caccini’s Il rapimento di Cefalo (“The Abduction of Cephalus”). It was performed at the...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 7/2008

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