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SIGCD019 Music for Charles V review
SIGCD036 Tallis comp wks v8 review
SIGCD042 Tallis comp wks v9 review
SIGCD044 Madam d'amours review
SIGCD045 Clemens non papa choral wks review
SIGCD049 Harmonia caelestis review
SIGCD050 Gaudete review
SIGCD051 Shostakovich Hypothetically murdered review
SIGCD052 Shostakovich Hamlet, Lear review review
SIGCD054 Rachmaninov vespers review
SIGCD055 Lullabyes & goodbyes review
SIGCD057 Time for marimba review
SIGCD059 Anthems 21st cent. review
SIGCD061 Treason & dischord review
SIGCD062 Pott Christus review
SIGCD064 Reich Different trains review
SIGCD065 Sacred bridges review
SIGCD066 Tippett Britten Purcell songs review
SIGCD067 One star at last review
SIGCD068 Light of the world review
SIGCD069 Esperar sentir morir review
SIGCD071 Tallis Spem in alium review
SIGCD072 Exquisite hour review
SIGCD073 Music for the Virgin Mary review
SIGCD074 Handel Messiah (arr. Mozart) review
SIGCD076 Lassus Lamentationes review
SIGCD077 World's globe review
SIGCD078 Talbot Path of miracles review
SIGCD080 Pott Meditations review
SIGCD082 Triumphs of Oriana Kings singers review
SIGCD083 Todd Mass in blue review review
SIGCD084 Royal Albert Hall organ restored review
SIGCD085 Tenebrae review
SIDCD086 Telemann virtuoso godfather review
SIGCD087 Weir songs review
SIGCD090 Landscape & time Kings singers review
SIGCD091 Bach cello suites review
SIGCD092 Tippett choral images review
SIGCD093 Oxford psalms review
SIGCD094 Coronation music James II review
SIGCD098 The mystery of do-re-mi review
SIGCD100 Chilcott choral works review
SIGCD103 Metcalf Time of daffodils review
SIGCD105 Potts Cloud of unknowing
SIGCD106 Hughes purse of gold - Irish songs review
SIGCD108 The carols album review
SIGCD109 Monteverdi 1610 Vespers review
SIGCD113 Bach WTC Book 1 review
SIGCD114 Organ of Buckingham Palace ballroom review
SIGCD115 Hear my words review
SIGCD116 Elgar Myaskovsky CCs review review
SIGCD117 Glass str qts review
SIGCD118 Elgar sy3 Pomp 6 review
SIGCD119 Golden age King's singers review
SIGCD121 Simple gifts Kings singers 40th anniv review
SIGCD122 Britten abroad review
SIGCD124 Roth Songs in time of war review
SIGCD125 Division flute review
SIGCD126 Messiaen chmbr wks review review review
SIGCD127 O sacrum convivium review
SIGCD128 Songs of innocence review
SIGCD131 de Wert Vox in rama review
SIGCD133 Schubert sy9 review
SIGCD134 White sacred chor wks review
SIGCD135 Shostakovich sy5 Ashkenazy review review
SIGCD137 Shostakovich CC2 Britten cel sy review review
SIGCD138 Knowles poetry serenade review
SIGCD139 Beethoven lieder review
SIGCD142 Chilcott Making waves review
SIGCD143 Powerplant review
SIGCD144 Bingham Remoter worlds review
SIGCD145 Beethoven lieder review
SIGCD146 Granados Goyecas review
SIGCD149 Songs of the sky review
SIGCD150 King's singers Proms review review
SIGCD151 Howells choral works review
SIGCD152 Silvia Santafe review
SIGCD154 Carlson Anna Karenina review
SIGCD155 Liszt abroad - songs review
SIGCD157 Torelli original Brandenburgs review review
SIGCD158 Facades review
SIGCD160 Korngold songs review
SIGCD163 Durufle requiem review review
SIGCD167 Organ St Sulpice review
SIGCD168 Elgar orch wks review
SIGCD169 Beethoven sys 3 & 5 review
SIGCD170 Rossini mezzo review
SIGCD171 Dance of three legged elephants review
SIGCD174 Don't talk review
SIGCD175 London CO review
SIGCD176 Stainer Crucifixion review
SIGCD177 From the heart review
SIGCD179 Elgar sys review
SIGCD180 Naked Byrd review
SIGCD182 What sweeter song review
SIGCD183 Dvorak sys 7 & 8 review
SIGCD184 Verdi requiem review
SIGCD186 Kernis Goblin market review
SIGCD188 Mahler sy9 review
SIGCD189 Arias Andrew Kennedy review
SIGCD190 Howells choral wks review
SIGCD193 Berlioz sym fant review
SIGCD194 Shostakovich sy7 review
SIGCD197 Poulenc chor wks review
SIGCD198 Pachelbel vespers review
SIGCD202 Family Christmas review
SIGCD203 Metcalf paths review
SIGCD204 Venables At midnight review
SIGCD205 Stravinsky Rite review
SIGCD206 French sacred music review
SIGCD208 Berkeley For you review
SIGCD209 Bach St john passion review review
SIGCD210 Dialogues of sorrow review review
SIGCD212 Levine Prayer review
SIGCD213 Bach motets review
SIGCD215 Bach Christmas oratorio arr big band review
SIGCD217 Songs of cricket review
SIGCD218 Bach mass review
SIGCD219 Mahler sy4 review
SIGCD228 Britten Ceremony of carols review
SIGCD229 Tchaikovsky Swan lake Rachmaninov sym dances review
SIGCD231 Vivaldi Piazzolla 4 seasons review
SIGCD234 Herrmann works for str qt review
SIGCD235 Naked Byrd two review
SIGCD237 Monteverdi vespers review
SIGCD238 Walton Barber VCs review review
SIGCD243 Rodolfus choir collection review
SIGCD244 Rodrigo conc Aranjuez review
SIGCD246 Handel messiah review
SIGCD247 Poulenc songs v1 review
SIGCD248 Victoria requiem review
SIGCD249 Concerti curiosi review
SIGCD250 Brahms sys 1 & 3 review
SIGCD252 Chopin Saint-Saens cel sons review
SIGCD254 Beethoven sy9 Mackerras review
SIGCD260 Talbot Harmonic tide review
SIGCD261 Bach organ wks review
SIGCD262 High flight review
SIGCD263 Poulenc songs v2 review
SIGCD264 Rachmaninov preludes review review
SIGCD267 Songs of farewell review
SIGCD268 Joy to the world review
SIGCD270 Roth shared ground review review
SIGCD275 Mahler sy6 review
SIGCD280 Berlioz Grande messe review review review
SIGCD281 Song of farewell review review
SIGDVD001 Verdi Falstaff review
SIGDVD003 Bach org wks v1 review
SIGDVD005 King's singers Proms review
SIGDVD008 Christmas - King's singers review



 

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