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Review of Beethoven Missa Solemnis

Beethoven Missa Solemnis

Returning to DVD after listening to a number of CDs, one is always surprised by the sheer quality of the...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/2011

Review of Kuhnau The Biblical Sonatas

Kuhnau The Biblical Sonatas

Johann Kuhnau was Bach’s predecessor at Leipzig and one of the most imaginative of the Lutheran organist-composers of the generation...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1996

Review of Mozart Requiem

Mozart Requiem

There have been a lot of Mozart Requiems on record lately, on modern instruments and on period ones, in Sussmayr's...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/1988

Review of Mi Buenos Aires querido

Mi Buenos Aires querido

The impressively international character of Barenboim’s career causes us to forget that he was born in Buenos Aires and spent...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1996

Review of Great European Organs, No.19

Great European Organs, No.19

Charles Tournemire is one those composers whose names are better known than their music. He wrote four operas, eight symphonies...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 1/1992

Review of Beethoven Orchestral Works

Beethoven Orchestral Works

This is Giulini's third recording of the Pastoral Symphony and it is, by some distance, the finest. Indeed, the whole...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/1994

Review of French Orchestral Works

French Orchestral Works

These three pieces make a very attractive programme and it was a good idea to present them together in this...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 4/1990

Review of Sibelius Symphonies Nos 6 and 7

Sibelius Symphonies Nos 6 and 7

Having started promisingly with a stimulating coupling of Symphonies Nos 2 and 4 (7/01), succeeding releases within Sakari Oramo’s CBSO...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 13/2003

Review of The Emperor's Fanfare

The Emperor's Fanfare

Carlo Curley is a very flamboyant character and the mighty Philadelphia organ sonically displayed here seems just right for his...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1991

Review of Psalms from St Paul's, Volume 5

Psalms from St Paul's, Volume 5

It is really very modern. There are the good types, the righteous, us and more especially me; and then there...

Reviewed in issue 2/1997


 

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