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Review of Organ Dreams, Volume 2

Organ Dreams, Volume 2

Christopher Herrick

Hyperion

After eight highly acclaimed discs of ‘Organ Fireworks’ the winning combination of Christopher Herrick and Hyperion have turned their attention...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 9/2000

Review of Organ works by Francis Jackson

Organ works by Francis Jackson

Francis Jackson

Amphion

The importance of this recording is twofold: it provides a cross-section of Francis Jackson's organ music output, played by the...

Reviewed in issue 4/1987

Review of Debussy/Janácek/Shostakovich String Quartets

Debussy/Janácek/Shostakovich String Quartets

Vogler Qt

Red Seal

Intelligent, beautifully blended playing from the young Vogler Quartet. In the Debussy, their lucid, comparatively objective manner put me in...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/1994

Review of Finzi; Howells; Patterson Works for Oboe and Piano

Finzi; Howells; Patterson Works for Oboe and Piano

Julius Drake | Nicholas Daniel

Leman

This is a most interesting and rewarding recital devoted to English pieces for oboe and piano that deserve to be...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 10/1993

Review of Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4; Mozart Piano Concerto No 23

Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4; Mozart Piano Concerto No 23

Adrian Boult | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Myra Hess

BBC Music Legends/IMG Artists

Hess is her own rival in the Beethoven Concerto; but she doesn’t equal her 1952 performance, also with Boult, that...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 4/2003

Review of Bach Cantatas, Vol 39

Bach Cantatas, Vol 39

Amsterdam Baroque Choir | Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra | Bach Collegium Japan | Bernhard Landauer | Bogna Bartosz | Christoph Prégardien | James Gilchrist | Johannette Zomer | Jürg Dürmüller | Klaus Mertens

Challenge Classics

None of the five cantatas on the BIS release extends beyond a quarter of an hour and yet the wealth...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 9/2008

Review of Harper Miracles

Harper Miracles

Anna Jones | David Wilson-Johnson | Edinburgh Quartet | Edward Harper | Garry Walker | Louise Paterson | Scottish Chamber Orchestra | Scottish Chamber Orchestra Chorus

Delphian

Two sides of Edward Harper, now in his mid-sixties, emerge from this disc. In the main and most recent work,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 7/2008

Review of Villa-Lobos: String Quartets

Villa-Lobos: String Quartets

Bessler-Reis Quartet

Large claims have been made for Villa-Lobos's 17 string quartets. Grove states that they ''show the full extent of his...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 9/1988

Review of Schubert String Quartets

Schubert String Quartets

Alban Berg Qt

EMI

Both sleeve and label announce that this is the Urfassung (''Original Version'') of Der Tod und das Madchen but Schubertians...

Reviewed in issue 3/1986

Review of Turnage Greek

Turnage Greek

(Anonymous) Ensemble | Fiona Kimm | Helen Charnock | Quentin Hayes | Richard Bernas | Richard Suart

Argo

Mark-Anthony Turnage's Greek (to a libretto by Steven Berkoff from his own Oedipus-in-the-East-End play) won two awards and a standing...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1994

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