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Heart's Solace - Funeral Motets & Cantatas by Bach

There are few choral works of Bach’s so delicately woven and deliciously pearly as Lass, Furstin (Trauer Ode – or...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 9/1998

Schubert Sacred Works, Vol.1

Schubert's sacred choral works seem very much the poor relation in an output comprising so many indisputable masterpieces of vocal,...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 8/1994

Henze Symphony No 10; (4) Poemi; (La) Selva Incantata

Henze’s symphonies have fared relatively well on disc. Only the Eighth has yet to appear, with Nos 1-6 available from...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 2/2006

Stenhammar Piano music

Although it has been most gratifying to see Stenhammar's growing representation on record (there are now three CD versions of...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 7/1990

19th Century Guitar Favourites

The guitar in its present form has been around for no more than two centuries, and as with all 'new'...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 1/1995

Unknown Britten

The eight (!) previously unrecorded works presented on this disc span the length of Britten’s career. Two come from 1930,...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 13/2009

Bach Cantatas, Volume 9

Following hard on the heels of the volumes I reviewed last November, Pieter Jan Leusink now concludes his super-budget cantata...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 4/2001

Bononcini Luci Barbare

The scant attention paid to Bononcini’s music in recording studios obscures its sheer quantity, quality and popularity in Europe during...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 9/2000

Gade Chamber Works

Formal originality was never one of Niels Gade's strong points, but why he should have chosen to publish his String...

Reviewed in issue 2/1993

Mnemosyne

‘A sign we are, inexplicable without pain ... .’ The words are by the nineteenth-century German poet Friedrich Holderlin, taken...

Reviewed in issue 5/1999

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