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Buxtehude (The) Complete Organ Works Vol.2

This generous second helping from Christopher Herrick’s complete Buxtehude series features the two-manual instrument designed by Joachim Wagner, the leading...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 2/2010

Wallace Orchestral works

Following in the footsteps of their excellent Sir Alexander Mackenzie (5/95) and Hamish MacCunn discs (2/96), Hyperion have once again...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 11/1996

Tallis: Motets

New recordings of Tallis's remarkable 40-part motet Spem in alium seem to appear at approximately ten-year intervals. First came the...

Reviewed in issue 3/1986

Haydn 6 Divertimentos (Str Qts), Op.9

Haydn's Op. 9 String Quartets are commonly regarded (if they're regarded at all) as early works. In fact they date...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 10/1989

Bach Cello Suites Nos 1 & 2; Elgar Cello Concerto, Op 85

Jacqueline du Pré was 20 when she recorded Elgar’s Cello Concerto with Sir John Barbirolli and the LSO in August...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 2/2006

Sibelius Orchestral Works

I noted felicitous details in earlier issues in the Segerstam cycle alongside some questionable interpretative touches. This account of the...

Reviewed in issue 3/1993

Chopin Piano Concerto No 1

This companion issue to Emanuel Ax’s outstanding disc of the Second Concerto (6/98) and other concertante pieces similarly offers period...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1999

Awake my Glory

Two substantial and imaginative settings of words by the eighteenth-century poet, Christopher Smart, frame this rewarding concert from the three...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/1999

Ravel: orchestral works

These performances, recorded between 1971 (Daphnis et Chloe) and 1976 (Pavane) in the Concertgebouw, are predictably satisfying as orchestral playing...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 6/1987

Donizetti Songs

This is the kind of record which might, and should not, go under in the flood: there are so many...

Reviewed in issue 4/1990

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