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James Wood Stoicheia

Long works for percussion with Greek titles may lead you to expect Xenakis-style assault and battery, the performers acting out...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 5/1991

Ferrabosco Motets & Madrigals

Paul van Nevel has a liking for eccentrics, and the life of Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder certainly qualifies him as...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2005

Bach (The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2

Jill Crossland’s recording of The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2 largely mirrors the virtues and drawbacks characterising her efforts in Book...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 13/2008

José Carreras My Romance

I wish I could more readily warm to Carreras’s singing of this collection of romantic operetta numbers. To be sure,...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 13/1997

R. Strauss Salome

Strauss wanted Mendelssohn-like textures in his Salome. These Keilberth, one of the last conductors to work with the composer, provides...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1994

Beethoven Piano Concertos; Five Piano Sonatas

With an 11-CD reissue Decca offers a 60th birthday salute to one of the greatest artists of our time. Together...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/2006

Elgar Symphony No 1

This first issue in what Philips plan as a whole Elgar series from Previn and the RPO provides a most...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1986

Handel Alexander's Feast

Ludus Baroque is a group of singers and instrumentalists who have been meeting twice a year since 1997 to give...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 6/2011

Verdelot Madrigals for a Tudor King

Before Arcadelt, Philippe Verdelot was the first composer whose name became significantly associated with the madrigal. This CD offers the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 6/2008

Schütz Symphoniae sacrae

These discs are in various ways revelatory. Schutz's collection is difficult to get through in one sitting but then it...

Reviewed in issue 4/1995

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