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Bach; Shostakovich Fugue

Onyx Brass’s spaciously recorded recital of Bach and Shostakovich fugues provides an unusual juxtaposition of a celebrated master-apprenticeship separated by...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 9/2008

Swayne Choral Works

Giles Swayne (b.1946) shares with his British near-contemporaries, Colin Matthews and Diana Burrell, an ability to write music of very...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/1998

Schumann Song Cycles

If I wanted to recommend a version of these two cycles to a young, impecunious person just coming to Lieder,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1994

Pärt Kanon pokajanen

Kanon pokajanen is music of transition, best heard at break of day or at eventide. The prompting ‘canon or repentance’...

Reviewed in issue 6/1998

A Tabernacle Organ Duo Extravaganza

This record is my 'turkey' of the year. The Salt Lake Tabernacle organ is an impressive instrument and with four...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1991

Stravinsky Les Noces

So much trouble did the instrumentation of Les noces cause Stravinsky that he himself claimed not to know how many...

Reviewed in issue 1/1989

Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem

This is rather like Herreweghe’s recording of the Beethoven Missa solemnis, which was welcomed by EG (12/95) and enjoyed a...

Reviewed in issue 11/1996

Boccherini Piano Quintets

This is the second CD in what I trust will be a series of four, with all 12 of the...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 4/1994

Franco Corelli – (The) Unknown Recordings

In his book Sopranos, Mezzos, Tenors, Basses and Other Friends (Crown: 1995), Schuyler Chapin, general manager of the Metropolitan Opera...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 3/2004

Mondonville: Motets

This is a welcome issue on two counts. First, the performances are in the hands of a director who well...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1988

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