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Brahms Symphony No 4; Choruses a cappella, Op. 74/1, 109-10

Comparing these two very different performances is like listening to two sides of the same argument, the one centre-focused and...

Reviewed in issue 13/1998

Keiser Diegrossmütige Tomyris

Except for a scene from Octavia in 1955 and extracts from Croesus in 1962 (both of which were greeted enthusiastically),...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1989

Mozart Violin Concertos

Dmitry Sitkovetsky is very much a rising star amongst younger violinists, and it's encouraging that a relative newcomer who avoids...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 11/1987

Charpentier Le Malade Imaginaire

It is not a year since I reviewed a recording of Charpentier's incidental music to Moliere's last play, Le malade...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1991

Lassus Lagrime di San Pietro

This extraordinary work now boasts a sizeable (if uneven) discography, the Consort of Musicke’s early recording (L’Oiseau-Lyre – nla) and...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 1/2011

Liszt Works for Piano and Orchestra, Volume 3

Volume 3 triumphantly concludes Louis Lortie’s Chandos cycle of Liszt’s works for piano and orchestra. Once again his mastery is...

Reviewed in issue 5/2002

A Book of Chorale Settings - German Mass (Bach Edition, Vol 81)

The hallmark of Bach’s pedagogical influence on generations of musicians lies squarely with the chorale: the bread and butter of...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 8/2000

Landowski Symphonies

It would not be altogether surprising if Messiaen's gigantic and subversive Turangalila had dealt the French symphony—a relatively delicate phenomenon,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/1990

Casella Chamber Music

Weird programming. The Sonata a tre, one of Casella’s strongest works, is placed last; before it two early pieces enclose...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 11/2000

Monte Motets, Madrigals and Chansons

Philippe de Monte continues to enjoy (if that’s the right word) a lukewarm press in modern times. I recently heard...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 6/2008

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