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Monteverdi Mass of Thanksgiving

This recording represents perhaps the most convincing reconstruction of the musical aspect of a particular liturgical celebration that I have...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 11/1989

Wagner Piano Works, Vol.1

It would take an extreme Wagner fanatic (not, of course, an uncommon phenomenon) to claim in all seriousness that, had...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/1993

Rutter Bang!

‘Remember, remember, the fifth of November’: so begins and ends this ‘opera for young people’, given first in 1975 by...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/2003

Beethoven Leonore

There may be a small but possibly keen constituency for this, which is a recording of Leonore in its second...

Reviewed in issue 2/1999

Dukas Orchestral Works

With a dozen versions of L'apprenti sorcier—a work whose familiarity leads people to undervalue its brilliance of conception and craftsmanship—already...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 6/1987

Brahms Piano Works

This is one of the most distinguished discs of Brahms's piano music that I have heard in recent years. Jorge...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 11/1988

Lachner Symphony No. 1. Spohr Symphony No. 2

Spohr was born in 1784 and his Second Symphony was composed in 1820; Franz Lachner was born in 1803 and...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1986

Bach Organ Chorales from the Leipzig Manuscript

Any new CD of Bach’s organ music needs to have something special about it if it is to make its...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 10/2006

Mozart Requiem

Listening almost 40 years to the day after this concert was given at Salzburg has been a moving experience. Though...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1996

My Spirit Sang All Day

This record contains 25 English part-songs or folk-song arrangements and is a good selection, with several items that will be...

Reviewed in issue 6/1988

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