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Maxwell Davies Orchestral Works

Worldes Blis (1969) is a Song of the Earth that ends, after 40 minutes of sustained and sombre melodic evolution,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/1994

Dvorák Choral Works

The Stabat mater was among the first of Dvorak's works to bring him fame abroad, especially in this country, where...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/1992

Tallis Complete Works, Vol 5

This fifth volume of the complete works illustrates to perfection Tallis’s fondness for the practice of alternatim. His use of...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 11/2002

Flower of Cities All: London 1580-1620

This musical portrait of London takes in all sorts of performance situations, from the courtly and aristocratic to more popular...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 8/2009

Handel Germanico

Florentine harpsichordist Ottaviano Tenerani and Sony’s imprint Deutsche Harmonia Mundi have become over-excitable about Germanico – a peculiar early-18th-century manuscript...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 13/2011

Britten; Prokofiev; Shostakovich Cello Sonatas

We’re not short of first-rate accounts of the Sonata that Britten wrote for Rostropovich in 1960-01. Pieter Wispelwey and Dejan...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/2003

Haydn (Die) Schöpfung

Herbert von Karajan (DG) has shown that, within a massed-forces, full-colour production of The Creation, considerations of pace, weight and...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 9/1987

Mozart Mass in C minor, K427

Discussing the C minor Mass in a booklet interview, Paul McCreesh remarks that ‘any attempt to complete it runs the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 1/2006

English Organ Music

''Is this Britain's finest cathedral organ?'' ask Priory in their promotional publicity for this disc. Of course that must be...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/1992

Bohemian Rhapsodies

Any prospective purchaser might view “Bohemian Rhapsodies” in one of three ways – as a pleasing programme of violinistic showpieces,...

Reviewed in issue 5/1997

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