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Although neither Edmund Rubbra nor Patrick Hadley is a major name in the history of choral music, programming these two 20th century British composers together
Although at first glance William Byrd’s music seems to have fared pretty well on disc, it’s only a relative few works that get most of
No one can truthfully say that Bach’s motets haven’t been treated well on disc–some would say almost too well given the various and near-bewildering combinations
The attraction here is the repertoire, music by six composers of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Marin Marais gets star billing, but his
Nikolai Demidenko’s propensity for tinkering with composers’ dynamics and phrasings can provoke and convince as much as they can baffle and displease. This Beethoven disc
The basset-horn is described in music dictionaries as both a tenor and alto clarinet, but whatever the description, it sounds like a clarinet and has
Anyone who loves Spanish music will tell you that it’s a constant source of frustration that there aren’t more orchestral scores by the great 19th
This collection of motets by 16th/17th-century English composer Peter Philips adds to a justly (albeit slowly) growing discography that in every instance shows why Philips’
Simon Rattle once deemed Messiaen’s Turangalila Symphony “a Mars bar of a piece”. If that’s the case, Joseph Marx’s seductive early-20th century Romantic vocabulary wraps
It’s odd how the Lindsays can shine in 20th century music (their excellent Tippett recordings, for instance) yet frequently fail to match the high standards
