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Cornelius Choral Works

Peter Cornelius is overdue for a reappraisal, especially in England. Though the scores of his operas Gunlod and Der Cid...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/1990

Bach Well Tempered Clavier, Book 2

In substance‚ the comments in my review of Gary Cooper’s recording of Book 1 (4/01) remain valid here. He and...

Reviewed in issue 3/2002

Bach Complete Organ Works, Vol.1

This is very unusual Bach. The Fantasia in C minor has only recently been identified as being by Bach and...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 8/1992

Maxwell Davies Sacred Choral Works

There’s no better introduction to the productive tensions that have fuelled Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s career as a composer than...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 13/2006

Cheryl Studer Coloratura Arias

Impressed as most listeners will have been by this admirable singer's work in the opera house and on records, the...

Reviewed in issue 9/1990

Monteverdi Madrigals Book 2

These two madrigal books could hardly be more different. Book 2 was published when Monteverdi was only 23, and Book...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 3/0

Mozart Piano Concerto 22 & 23 (fortepiano)

This newest disc in Malcolm Bilson's Mozart concerto series, leaving only two more to go, shows a continuing growth in...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/1989

Schütz Musicalische Exequien

If you had not noticed before that the Musicalische Exequien – the 30-minute funeral sequence Schütz composed in 1636 for...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 13/2011

R. Strauss Eine Alpensinfonie

Having graduated from Karel Ancerl's conducting class at the Prague Academy, the late Zdenek Kosler worked briefly under Bernstein in...

Reviewed in issue 12/1995

Verdi (La) Traviata

Pier Luigi Pizzi’s updating of Traviata to occupied Paris, first seen in 2003 in Madrid, might seem gratuitous, but because...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/2006

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