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Taverner Music for Our Lady and Divine Office

This attractive anthology presents a faithful picture of a transitional situation. The Henrician reformation prompted several new departures in English...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/1993

Palestrina Motets and Madrigals

Akademia, a name new to me, has a clean, incisive sound, bright and well-tuned, and is capable of changing received...

Reviewed in issue 9/1994

Saeverud Orchestral Music, Vol 8

Harald Saeverud (1897-1992) was primarily an orchestral composer – witness his fine symphonies and concertos (BIS, 8/98, 10/00) – but...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 9/2006

Mozart: Piano Works

Emile Naoumoff is a name new to me and apart from an Orfeo CD of Stravinsky's The Firebird, to the...

Reviewed in issue 10/1988

Clarke, J; Redgate Piano Works

Those of you familiar with the music of Michael Finnissy, Brian Ferneyhough and James Dillon may well spill your tea...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 12/2009

English Oboe Concertos

I can’t think of any other modern CD collection of English oboe concertos that I have enjoyed more than this....

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/2004

Haydn: Concertos

Haydn's Trumpet Concerto is fairly well known; but there are not many people who will have heard it on the...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 1/1988

Simpson 12 Months; Vivaldi Four Seasons

With the flood of new recordings of The Four Seasons showing no sign of abating, these three reissued period-instrument performances...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 3/2004

Cage Sonatas & Interludes

Cage's prepared piano music stands to gain dramatically from the technology of digital recording and Compact Disc (his 4'33'' even...

Reviewed in issue 5/1986

Verdi Rigoletto

I encountered Scotto and Kraus‚ both of them little known‚ a couple of years before these recordings were made. That...

Reviewed in issue 11/2001

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