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English Organ Music

James Vivian’s previous solo disc of 2005 – a survey of works built upon the Passacaglia (on JAV) – drew...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 5/2011

Paul Schoeffler Recital

Paul Schoeffler's career bestraddled the war years. Indeed, he was probably at the peak of his form during the conflict,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1995

Bach Cantatas for Bass

This new disc from Harmonia Mundi contains three profoundly expressive examples of Bach's craft in the composition of sacred cantatas....

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1992

Adrian Boult - 1956 Nixa-Westminster Recordings, Vol 2

The high production values that distinguished Volume 1 of First Hand Records’ reissue of Sir Adrian Boult’s “1956 Nixa-Westminster Stereo...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 1/2011

Coulais Stabat Mater

Bruno Coulais said in 2001 that he wanted to concentrate less on film music and pursue his contemporary classical career....

Reviewed by aspicer in issue: 7/2006

Lloyd Requiem; Psalm 130

George Lloyd’s Requiem is dedicated to the memory of Princess Diana‚ and it is presumably on this account that it...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

Elgar Violin Concerto; Polonia

Ida Haendel evidently has strong ideas about Elgar’s masterpiece. Impassioned and full of character though her playing is, it is,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/1997

Eno Music for Airports

Back in 1978, Music for Airports (Virgin) caused a considerable stir at the progressive end of popular music. As the...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 7/1998

Lady in the Dark - Original London Cast

The 1997 production of Lady in the Dark was its first staging in London, one of only about half a...

Reviewed in issue 9/1998

Sumer is icumen in

I take it that this is aimed at a rather wider public than most records of medieval music. Sumer is...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 5/1986

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