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Choral Evensong from Tewkesbury Abbey

Though this CD provides a moving liturgical representation of a traditional Anglican evensong, its valedictory nature colours the performances with...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 8/2010

Orff Prometheus

For a composer responsible for one of the most popular pieces of music to have emerged last century, Carl Orff’s...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 11/2000

Mussorgsky Boris Godunov (highlights in English)

In 1989, as part of his farewell season with Opera North, David Lloyd-Jones conducted the seven-scene version of Boris Godunov...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1998

Elgar Chamber & Instrumental Works

Neither of last year's fine recordings of Elgar's Piano Quintet quite matches up to this 20-yearold performance by the late...

Reviewed in issue 9/1989

Haydn, M (Der) Traum

The theatre at the Benedictine University of Salzburg drew a number of early works from Mozart and several‚ too‚ from...

Reviewed in issue 9/2002

Byrd Propers for Christmas Day

This second volume of The Cardinall’s Musick’s Byrd edition is, if anything, more impressive than the first (ASV, 11/97). It...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 7/1998

Feodor Chaliapin - Aria and Song Recital

Not one for the shopping-list. As well as containing some of Chaliapin's best recordings the recital also has a whole...

Reviewed in issue 12/1989

Sibelius Symphonies Nos 4 & 7

On all counts this is impressive. The playing of the Helsinki orchestra is very fine indeed and the recording rich...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1984

Brahms (Ein) Deutsches Requiem

Though these two discs sit side by side, they are not in any meaningful sense comparable. The timings tell less...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 8/2008

Liszt Piano Works

Unlike Horowitz's legendary 1932 recording of the Sonata (reissued on CD by EMI, 3/90—nla) this performance is strictly for those...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/1993

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