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Hildegard Von Bingen Hortus Deliciarum

‘Hortus deliciarum’ is truly a garden of delights, a recital of mainly 12th-century pieces, planned by Marie-Noël Colette and Brigitte...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 1/2004

Wagner Die Walküre, Act 2

Few compositional tasks are more formidable than that of finding an adequate music for the teeming imagery and highly charged...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/2000

Bach, JC Mailander Vesperpsalmen

A few years after the death of his father, Johann Christian Bach went to Italy to further his musical training....

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 4/2011

Hindemith Viola Music, Volume 2

The first three of Hindemith’s sonatas for unaccompanied viola were written in the five years following the First World War,...

Reviewed in issue 5/1996

Cage Miscellaneous Works

This is another CD issued as part of the John Cage Edition on Wergo. The original recordings were made in...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 9/1992

(Le) Passage de la Mer Rouge

Jean-Baptiste Morin is the composer credited with adapting the Italian cantata for a French audience. His cantatas, and most of...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 8/2010

Griffes Collected Works for Piano

Here is a valuable anthology, for which New World provide extensive annotation. The titanic Sonata and wonderfully evocative Roman Sketches...

Reviewed in issue 8/1998

Verdi Il trovatore

European Chamber Opera, which has no connection—it should be said—with the European Community Chamber Orchestra, was formed two years ago...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1994

Come to the Fair - Folksongs and Ballads

The sound of the Suisse Romande Radio Choir is pleasantly un-homogenized: it is audibly made up of some 20 individuals....

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1985

Charles Craig sings Puccini Arias and Favourite Ballads

‘One of the three leading British tenors’ a critic is quoted as saying of Charles Craig in 1959. The others,...

Reviewed in issue 1/1999

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