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Bach St Matthew Passion

This is the second recording of the St Matthew Passion to appear on Naxos and while not superseding Geza Oberfrank’s...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 7/2006

Mendelssohn Magnificat

Mendelssohn wrote the two large-scale works on this disc of his church music, the Magnificat and Gloria, when – almost...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/2009

Rodgers South Pacific

Concert versions of stage musicals have much to recommend them, not least in letting us hear the full orchestral score...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 12/2006

Vienna Première, Vol. 2

By all accounts the original Chandos ''Vienna Premiere'' (LBRD009, 1/84; CD CHAN8381, 1/86) has been a tremendous success around the...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 8/1987

Chopin Waltzes

Anxious for new blood, DG have turned their sights on the East, though as Alice Sara Ott tells us she...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2010

Bach: Keyboard Concertos

Chout was the first of Prokofiev's ballets that Diaghilev actually staged. In 1914 Diaghilev had briefly toyed with the idea...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1988

Muzio The Published Edisons, 1920-25

There can be few events I would rather be carried back to in a time capsule than Muzio's performances as...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1990

Codex Las Huelgas

It is more than mere trendism to say that medieval musical practices within female communities such as nunneries have been...

Reviewed in issue 8/1993

Clarinet Kaleidoscope – British Composer Series

I suppose it’s clarinettists seeking something new and light-hearted and others with a special fondness for the instrument, who will...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 7/2004

Bax; Bridge; Ireland Piano Sonatas

Baxians must be pinching themselves at the appearance of what is the third cycle of the four numbered piano sonatas...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/2008

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