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Bach Organ Works, Vol. 8

Volume 8 of this comprehensive Bach cycle finds Kevin Bowyer in exceptionally boisterous mood. There is a decidedly cheeky account...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 5/1997

Tippett A Child of our Time

Sir Michael Tippett made this recording in his eighty-seventh year, some 50 years after completing this, his first wholly characteristic...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/1992

Schubert Symphonies

Harnoncourt, like Stefano Mollo for Abbado, has researched Schubert's own manuscripts, and noted that many unauthentic amendments have found their...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/1993

Couperin Leçons de Ténèbres

Strange are the ways of record companies. Erato already have in their current list an admirable recording – one with...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 7/1997

Emmanuel Pahud - Fantasy: A Night at the Opera

As the title suggests, this is a nicely varied collection of flute lollipops inspired by opera, dazzlingly performed by EMI’s...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/2010

Debussy (La) Mer; Mahler Symphony No 2

Both packages assume that you already know and love this music: their notes focus exclusively on the activities of Claudio...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2004

Bach Goldberg Variations

A mind-boggling statement in the brief insert-note by Kenneth Weiss himself (duly translated, unquestioningly, in the French version) that, of...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 5/1997

Joel Fantasies and Delusions

Billy Joel (b1949) was at the forefront of the singer­songwriter movement that swept through the pop music world from the...

Reviewed in issue 1/2002

Chonguri

Nothing that emerges from Manfred Eicher’s ECM stable is likely to lack a considered musical context, and true to form...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2006

Mozart Symphonies

After Mozart returned from his first extended tour of Italy in 1771, he embarked on a number of symphonic projects...

Reviewed in issue 12/1995

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