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Elgar Cathedral Music

This anthology of Elgar's sacred music was recorded in Worcester Cathedral and Hyperion's engineers have captured the clarity and warmth...

Reviewed in issue 1/1989

Prokofiev Piano Works

The principal glory of this Prokofiev recital is a masterly account of the Second Sonata. Barry Douglas has the full...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 3/1992

Wagner Tristan und Isolde; Parsifal – Karajan

Both these sets were much admired here in their LP form, and are very welcome on CD. The Karajan Parsifal...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1984

Beethoven Piano Concertos

Michael Roll once jokingly remarked that Jorge Bolet did not really get going till he was 60, a reference to...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/1997

Fasch Concertos and Overtures

Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688-1758) trained at the Thomasschule in Leipzig under Kuhnau, spent most of his career working as Kapellmeister...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2009

Bach Cantatas, Vol 22 - Nos 7, 20 & 94

This volume heralds the beginning of the most substantial and ambitious compositional exercise in Bach’s career: an annual series of...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 5/2004

Hassler Missa

Hans Leo Hassler (c1564-1612) was something of a polymath: organist, polyglot, businessman, builder of mechanical instruments and one of the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2011

Verdi Requiem

With one reservation this is a fine account of the Requiem‚ and with its curiously chosen but attractive fill­ups (even...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 5/2002

Lassus: Penitential Psalms

This cycle was commissioned by Duke Albrecht V of Bavaria, a man who in some respects prefigures King Ludwig II....

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 3/1987

R. Ward Crucible

Robert Ward's The Crucible was warmly received on its first production in New York in 1961, and it has since...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 6/1990

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