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Bantock Choral Symphonies

“That crowning glory of the North, the well-selected mixed choir carefully trained by some local conductor, can touch the heart...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/1996

Handel Harpsichord Works, Vol 3

Sophie Yates brings formidable technique and strong dramatic feeling to these suites. The works of the first‚ 1720‚ collection are...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

Beethoven Cello Sonatas Nos 2, 3 and 5

If you’re not sure about the advantages of original-instrument performance of classical chamber music, try this disc! Watkin and Moody...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 10/1996

Bolcom Symphony 4; Sessions 1

The St Louis Symphony Orchestra recorded William Bolcom's Fourth Symphony within a week of its premiere in March 1987. Bolcom—50...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/1988

O Crux - Spanish Choral Music

Political upheavals in Spain during the 19th century have been overshadowed by those of the 20th century‚ yet‚ as Carlos...

Reviewed in issue 10/2002

Chopin Piano Works

Angela Lear has a warm, romantic heart and a keen enough interest in the actual letter of Chopin's music to...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1993

Josef Lhévinne The Complete Recordings

To have all Lhevinne's recordings reissued on one CD is marvellous in a way, but we are thus made aware...

Reviewed in issue 12/1989

Dowland Seaven Teares

The Seaven Teares are the heart of Lachrimae; the purpose of the other 14 items is unknown – were they...

Reviewed in issue 8/2002

Harvey Speakings

Speakings (2007-08) is the centrepiece of an orchestral trilogy whose outer movements, Body Mandala and …towards a Pure Land, have...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/2010

Prokofiev Ivan the Terrible (complete film music)

Today’s collector is faced by a bewildering array of Ivan the Terrible s, the confusion yet more profound than is...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 2/2001

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