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Choral Music from Dundee

Saving their best till last, the Dundee Cathedral Choir sing with spirit and confidence in Joubert's setting of the Magnificat...

Reviewed in issue 8/1992

Alfonso X el Sabio Cantigas

These Spanish canticles, assembled by King Alfonso the Wise to honour the Blessed Virgin Mary, contain some delightful stories of...

Reviewed in issue 12/2000

Wagner Die Walküre

Surely one of the saddest facts of gramophone history is Furtwangler's death at, for a conductor the relatively early age...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1989

Brahms Symphonies Nos 1 & 2

Brahms laboured for the best part of two decades over his First Symphony and this is a disarmingly fluent account...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/2010

Takemitsu (A) String Around Autumn

Discovering Takemitsu via Ozawa’s 1968 recording of November Steps and a BBC Radio 3 broadcast of Green, I pestered dealers...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 1/2003

Martinsson; Pärt; Tamberg Trumpet Concertos

Both these discs feature Håkan Hardenberger’s indefatigable championing of contemporary trumpet music, and principally Swedish concertos. There can be few...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 9/2003

Bazin Le Voyage en Chine; Maître Pathelin

Francois Bazin's name has not impinged much on twentieth-century studies of French opera (the new Viking Opera Guide does not...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 4/1994

Mozart (Le) Nozze di Figaro

Here’s another instalment of Salzburg’s project to record all Mozart’s operas last summer. Like others we have already had, a...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/2007

Amy Beach/Rebecca Clarke Cello Works

Rebecca Clarke's Viola Sonata was published as ''for viola or cello'' and was played in her presence and to her...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1995

Beauty and the Beatbox

Beatbox culture – a beatbox artist being a musician who uses their body and vocal cords to imitate the sound...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 11/2007

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