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Rheinberger Organ Works, Vol 1

' Heavyweight' is the word that springs most readily to mind here. Rheinberger's 20 organ sonatas have moments of impressive...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 3/2000

Shostakovich Symphony 15; Jewish Folk Poetry, Op. 79

Rozhdestvensky's performance of the Fifteenth Symphony on JVC is an urgent and vivid one, let down by a distractingly fussy...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1987

Barrios Mangoré Guitar Works

Less than one quarter of the works of Barrios have as yet been recorded, but some have attained the status...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 1/1996

Elgar Symphony No 3

There’s so much impassioned, noble drama in Martyn Brabbins’s performance of the Prelude to Elgar’s oratorio The Kingdom that his...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 2/2008

Bach Cantatas and Arias

“All one gets from plaguey daughters”: that was how we used to know the aria which so engagingly opens this...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/2008

Bach (6) Partitas

No surface polish or sophisticated pianism here. Judith Lambden’s style is of a homely unpretentiousness, cut from an unconventional cloth....

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 4/2010

Songs of the Universe

Listen to this disc before reading the insert-notes. What you will see is an onslaught on the presumed contemporary music...

Reviewed in issue 1/1999

Monteverdi Complete Duets 2

Since its foundation in 1992 by Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco has fast acquired a reputation as one of the...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 4/1999

Messiaen; Schoenberg; Schubert Fantasies

“The melancholy of separation” is what, perhaps ironically, links the Schubert and Messiaen items on this intriguing recital, according to...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 9/2010

Mahler Symphonies Nos 9 & 10

Like Inbal's admirable Denon recording, this Abbado DG issue pairs the Ninth Symphony with the Adagio of the Tenth (not...

Reviewed in issue 8/1988

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