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Villa-Lobos Piano Music, Vol 6

Vol 6 of Sonia Rubinsky’s cycle of Villa-Lobos’s piano music contains two world premiere recordings and, even more enterprisingly, ranges...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/2008

Zelenka Missa votiva

The Missa votiva is a late work, composed in 1739 after Zelenka’s recovery from an unspecified but evidently debilitating illness....

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2010

Vivaldi: Cello Concertos

When a composer writes 27 concertos for one particular instrument it is not surprising that a few should go unrecorded;...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 8/1988

Locke Anthems, Motets and the Oxford Ode

This is a recording of exceptional interest. Few choirs could have been better placed or equipped to make it than...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 9/1991

Faure; Ravel; Schubert Songs

There is not much suggestion of curiosity in Simon Keenlyside’s enquiries about the much-commended Sylvia, and if he has any...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/2009

Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time

I often wonder whether the presence of composers at recordings of their works is a good idea, especially when the...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/1994

Dvorak Wanda

In five acts, Vanda was Dvorak’s idea of a grand opera after the manner of Meyerbeer. Happily, he of all...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Napolitane - Villanelle, Arie & Moresche (1530-70)

This titillating repertory is best known today in the mildly acculturated form transmitted by Lassus, who was attracted to it...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/1999

Strauss (4) Last Songs; Wagner Prelude & Liebestod

The “death and transfiguration” theme of this collection encompasses one of Strauss’s gaudiest tone-poems, the quotation from it embedded in...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 13/2006

Mahler/Stravinsky Choral Symphonies

I have vivid memories of Markevitch in the concert hall but cannot begin to imagine why these particular performances should...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 4/1989

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