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Purcell Complete Anthems and Services, Volume 9

This next-to-penultimate volume of Robert King's survey of Purcell's sacred music introduces four more works receiving first recordings, and six...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/1994

Post-Restoration English Organ Works

It is one of the ironies of our national musical history that while our church music tradition has an unequalled...

Reviewed by prussell in issue: 9/1994

Mozart Orchestral Works

This programme is something of a memorial to Daniel Majeske who died from cancer in November 1993 after being Concert...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 2/1995

Brahms/Dohnányi Piano Works

Brahms had the good grace to say of Erno Dohnanyi's C minor Piano Quintet, ''I could not have written it...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1995

Bachmann Rotation 90 degrees N

Robert Bachmann, born in Switzerland in 1944, is being promoted as both conductor and composer by the Australian Arva Classics...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/1994

Bach Partitas

Until a couple of years ago commercial recordings of the six keyboard Partitas, which form the first volume of Bach's...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1988

Offenbach (La) Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein

This new Grande-Duchesse carries a photograph of the Théâtre du Châtelet production of December 2004, with Felicity Lott surrounded by...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 4/2006

Chopin Etudes

Technically, Gavrilov's main challenges on CD come from the objectively commanding Pollini (DG) in the more demonstratively dramatic pieces, and...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1988

Mozart Piano Works

As the note-writer reminds us, everything here dates from Mozart's last decade. So the recital is a little gem—in content...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 10/1988

Satie Piano Works, Vol. 2

I recently welcomed Vol. 1 of Klara Kormendi's super-bargain Satie series (11/93) and called her ''a sympathetic exponent of the...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1994

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