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Bach Organ Concertos

The first concerto played may not be familiar to those confined to the older editions of the Complete Organ Works...

Reviewed in issue 8/1984

Schnittke Psalms of Repentance

Schnittke’s 12 Penitential Psalms (1988) are not biblical: Nos. 1-11 use sixteenth-century Russian texts and No. 12 is a wordless...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 5/1999

Dame Eva Turner - The Collected Recordings

‘Turner, Eva, soprano. Recording exclusively for Columbia.’ Thus ran her entry in the light-blue ‘celebrity’ catalogue of 1938, which listed...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/2000

Still Afro-American Symphony; Beach Gaelic Symphony

I must say I’ve enjoyed renewing acquaintance with Amy Beach’s fine Gaelic Symphony of 1896, whose nobly elegant progress, sumptuous...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/1999

Chopin Mazurkas;Waltzes

The 1836 Pleyel, used here, is an enticing piano. In the outstanding booklet-note (by three writers, including the pianist himself)...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 2/2004

Verdi Rigoletto

Since this version first appeared on LP, the production from which it derives has achieved a kind of legendary status....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1989

Panufnik String Quartets

Although Andrzej Panufnik's three string quartets are relatively late works, the second of them—subtitled Messages—is actually a delayed musical reaction...

Reviewed in issue 12/1993

J.C. Bach Harpsichord Concertos

Johann Christian Bach’s Op. 1 keyboard concertos were published in 1763: they are chamber works, played here, as they should...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 7/1996

Satie Orchestral Works

Not since Ronald Corp’s recording with his New London Orchestra, I think, have Satie’s three ballets been available on one...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1999

Bach: Keyboard works

There is enough surviving evidence to indicate that Bach spent a long time over the production of his six 'French...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1984

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