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Bach Cantatas, Vol 22 - Nos 7, 20 & 94

This volume heralds the beginning of the most substantial and ambitious compositional exercise in Bach’s career: an annual series of...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 5/2004

Hassler Missa

Hans Leo Hassler (c1564-1612) was something of a polymath: organist, polyglot, businessman, builder of mechanical instruments and one of the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2011

Verdi Requiem

With one reservation this is a fine account of the Requiem‚ and with its curiously chosen but attractive fill­ups (even...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 5/2002

Lassus: Penitential Psalms

This cycle was commissioned by Duke Albrecht V of Bavaria, a man who in some respects prefigures King Ludwig II....

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 3/1987

R. Ward Crucible

Robert Ward's The Crucible was warmly received on its first production in New York in 1961, and it has since...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 6/1990

Maxwell Davies - A Tribute

This is a portrait of a musician who, in the 12 years covered (1960-72), evolved from being a schoolmaster to...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 13/2004

Chants d'Auvergne

The lusciousness of this issue, recording as well as performance, comes out the more ravishingly in the Compact Disc format....

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1983

Schubert 'Rosamunde' Incidental Music

How ironic that Schubert’s best-loved stage music should be associated with such an absurd farrago as Wilhelmina von ChÈzy’s ìgrand...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2011

R. Strauss Intermezzo

Sheer joy, this CD transfer, still the only recording easily available of what is increasingly coming to be regarded as...

Reviewed in issue 1/1989

Hasse Piramo e Tisbe

When Hasse (who had been a pupil of Alessandro Scarlatti) wrote Piramo e Tisbe in 1768, he already had over...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1994

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