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Charpentier Sacred Choral Works

Only one of four pieces in this anthology of sacred vocal music by Charpentier has previously been issued on LP—and...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 5/1986

Bruckner Symphony No. 9

The fact that Carl Schuricht bore a passing resemblance to Bruckner did him no harm at all. Though he was...

Reviewed in issue 6/2001

Gunning Piano Concerto; Symphony No 1

A pupil of (among others) Rubbra and Richard Rodney Bennett at London’s Guildhall School of Music, Cheltenham-born Christopher Gunning (b1944)...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/2005

Bach Cantatas, Vol. 5

This fifth and final volume of Bach cantatas from Karl Richter contains works written for the 18th to 27th Sundays...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 1/1995

Donizetti Il campanello

In the chronological discography at the end of Charles Osborne’s book The Bel Canto Operas (Methuen: 1994) the latest of...

Reviewed in issue 9/1999

Beethoven Symphonies Nos 4 & 5

It is difficult to think of more opportune beginnings, with a written recommendation from Mahler for “Herr Klemperer as an...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 13/1998

Verdi Requiem

I hope HMV will soon re-master the famous giulini set of this work, for this Solti is not wholly satisfactory....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1984

Liszt Piano Works, Vol. 3

If I am expected to state a preference between Bolet's and Alfred Brendel's (Philips) accounts of the Liszt Sonata, I...

Reviewed in issue 4/1985

Rubinstein: PIano Music, Vol.2

It is said that Anton Rubinstein's ambition in life was to be regarded firstly as a composer and secondly as...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 9/1990

Elgar Part-Songs

Plaudits to Christopher Robinson and the Cambridge University Chamber Choir for their keenly prepared and fervent exploration of this still...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/2008

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