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Schubert Die Schöne Müllerin

This now becomes the first complete, or almost complete version of the cycle. Its history is curious. Recorded by Victor...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1997

Vaughan Williams Orchestral Works

''So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning.'' Thus concludes the visionary Biblical allegory upon...

Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 7/1992

Musgrave (An) Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Thea Musgrave’s 1981 radio opera, sounds like a 12-tone revival of Bonanza being interpreted...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 7/2011

Haydn (The) Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross

Pleasurable anticipation at a rare chance to hear The Seven Last Words in their original orchestral version curdled to irritation...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 4/2010

Wagner Götterdämmerung

If you’ve been collecting the Adelaide Ring, and finding more positive than negative aspects in the process, this final instalment...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/2008

Rachmaninov Piano Concertos, etc

Writing of Zoltan Kocsis’s Philips recital of solo Rachmaninov works in the March issue I celebrated performances “gloriously free-spirited and...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/1996

Busch plays Beethoven, Brahms & Busoni

On the face of it, we hardly need another Sibelius cycle. At the same time whether it be Beethoven, Brahms...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1997

C.P.E. Bach Organ Sonatas

C. P. E. Bach’s sonatas for organ were originally written for Princess Anna Amalia; “a princess who could not play...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 3/1997

Vaughan Williams Flos campi; Suite

This is a specially valuable reissue, if only because neither work, not even that incomparable masterpiece Flos campi, is at...

Reviewed in issue 6/1984

Busnois Magnificat; In Hydraulis; Missa O Crux Lignum

Busnois left only two securely ascribed Masses; the one on L’homme armé is easily the more famous, but this one,...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 5/2003

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