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Gregorian Chant Music for Holy Week, Vol.2

These records are not easy to understand or explain. The accompanying notes are less concerned with helping the listener than...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 10/1990

Haydn Piano Concerto in D Major; Oboe Concerto; Symphony No 76

Not a period instrument to be heard, the band is big: brass and timpani in the Oboe Concerto don’t stand...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 4/2007

Bach Orchestral Suites

Each of the four recordings of these Suites covered in my review last month (page 1138) occupies two discs; here,...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 2/1989

Mahler Symphony No 7

Mahler’s score attracted the attention of ‘modernist’ conductors long before Gielen and Boulez. Rosbaud’s radio tape, dating from 1957, is...

Reviewed in issue 3/1999

Pärt Arbos

As London concertgoers discovered during the 1986 Almeida Festival, the works of Arvo Part urgently cry out for attention. Why,...

Reviewed in issue 9/1987

Lieberson Orchestral and Chamber Works

This is the most extensive survey on disc of music by the American composer Peter Lieberson (b1946). Avoiding the piano...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 3/2002

Robert Alagna - Verdi Arias

In answer to all those nay-sayers concerning Alagna’s talents, the tenor here shows, in the most demanding programme imaginable, that...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1998

Organ Recital

My reviews of recent records of David Hill at Westminster Cathedral have offered slightly muted praise and I have felt...

Reviewed in issue 9/1986

Arnold Orchestral Wks

Two meaty offerings from opposite ends of Sir Malcom Arnold’s career top and tail this stimulating Naxos anthology. Composer and...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2011

Catalan Concertos

Excellent soloists from the Barcelona orchestra present two works from the 1970s by the doyen of Catalan composers, Montsalvatge –...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 6/1999

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