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Poulenc Sacred Choral Works

Between them, John Rutter and Richard Marlow with their Cambridge choirs here cover all Poulenc's sacred choral music except the...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1988

Bach Masses

Bach's four Missae, or Lutheran Masses consisting only of a Kyrie and Gloria have come in for a lot of...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1993

Dvorák; Schumann Cello Concertos

Truly legendary performances are rare, whatever it says on the label, but this heroic account of the Dvorák Concerto deserves...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 7/2003

Grier A Sequence for the Ascension

''The Rodolfus Choir consists of young people who have attended one or more of the Eton Choral Courses. Many are...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 7/1993

Andante Cantabile Works for Cello and Piano

''The cello, it has always seemed to me, is the most vocal of instruments: it is the only one that...

Reviewed in issue 6/1990

J. Strauss II Die Fledermaus

As I commented when reviewing the LP reissue in July 1987, this bargain Die Fledermaus is far from negligible. Wilma...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 2/1989

R. Strauss Salome

When this Salome first appeared almost 40 years ago (can it be so long?), it was compared unfavourably with the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1994

Mahler Symphony No 2

Much has already been written about Gilbert Kaplan's extraordinary obsession with Mahler's Resurrection Symphony. A wealthy publisher and financier, he...

Reviewed in issue 1/1989

Maxwell Davies Mavis in Las Vegas

During 1995 Peter Maxwell Davies toured the USA with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. A British journalist, trying to contact him...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/1998

Rodgers Flower Drum Song

After Cinderella (reviewed above), and one year before their final opus, The Sound of Music, Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote Flower...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 9/1999

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