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Organ Dreams, Volume 2
After eight highly acclaimed discs of ‘Organ Fireworks’ the winning combination of Christopher Herrick and Hyperion have turned their attention...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 9/2000
Organ works by Francis Jackson
The importance of this recording is twofold: it provides a cross-section of Francis Jackson's organ music output, played by the...
Reviewed in issue 4/1987
Debussy/Janácek/Shostakovich String Quartets
Intelligent, beautifully blended playing from the young Vogler Quartet. In the Debussy, their lucid, comparatively objective manner put me in...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/1994
Finzi; Howells; Patterson Works for Oboe and Piano
Julius Drake | Nicholas Daniel
This is a most interesting and rewarding recital devoted to English pieces for oboe and piano that deserve to be...
Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 10/1993
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4; Mozart Piano Concerto No 23
Adrian Boult | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Myra Hess
Hess is her own rival in the Beethoven Concerto; but she doesn’t equal her 1952 performance, also with Boult, that...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 4/2003
Bach Cantatas, Vol 39
None of the five cantatas on the BIS release extends beyond a quarter of an hour and yet the wealth...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 9/2008
Harper Miracles
Two sides of Edward Harper, now in his mid-sixties, emerge from this disc. In the main and most recent work,...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 7/2008
Villa-Lobos: String Quartets
Large claims have been made for Villa-Lobos's 17 string quartets. Grove states that they ''show the full extent of his...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 9/1988
Schubert String Quartets
Both sleeve and label announce that this is the Urfassung (''Original Version'') of Der Tod und das Madchen but Schubertians...
Reviewed in issue 3/1986
Turnage Greek
(Anonymous) Ensemble | Fiona Kimm | Helen Charnock | Quentin Hayes | Richard Bernas | Richard Suart
Mark-Anthony Turnage's Greek (to a libretto by Steven Berkoff from his own Oedipus-in-the-East-End play) won two awards and a standing...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1994
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