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Piano Concertos

Three early keyboard concertos with many striking contrasts make for a rewarding programme. Bach's very fine D minor Concerto was,...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1992

Ockeghem Requiem & Missa Fors Seulement

At the risk of repeating myself, 1997 is also Ockeghem year, and a fitting time for The Clerks’ Group to...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 5/1997

Janácek Glagolithic Mass

My treasured LP copy is so full of pops and squeaks I almost feared I would miss their familiar presence....

Reviewed in issue 9/1988

Bartók/Janácek - Works for String Orchestra

Writing of the early Idyll and Suite for strings, annotator John Tyrrell suggests that ‘there is virtually nothing that even...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 7/2000

Mussorgsky Orchestral & Choral Works

This is a well-merited reissue of some Mussorgsky rarities by one of his most intelligent and forceful modern champions, Claudio...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/1993

Wagner Der Fliegende Halländer

Seven years is the term the Dutchman takes to touch land; seven years is the time it has taken DG...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1998

Messiaen (La) Transfiguration de Notre-Seigneur Jésus-Christ

La Transfiguration is an important turning point in Messiaen’s work‚ at once a sort of summation of what he had...

Reviewed in issue 9/2002

Braunfels Prinzessin Brambilla

With this flawed, plodding live recording, Marco Polo takes up the cudgels on behalf of the half-Jewish German composer Walter...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 3/2006

Bruckner Masses

New recordings of Bruckner’s Masses are comparatively rare. This disc juxtaposes the early Mass in C major (he wrote it...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 3/2001

Bach Violin Concertos

This issue replicates the programme of Monica Huggett’s Bach concerto disc with Sonnerie (Gaudeamus, 12/06). Both recordings feature period instruments...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 10/2007

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