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Faire is the Heaven

The unmistakable sound of the Lady Chapel of Ely Cathedral, the youthful quality of the voices and the selection of...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 6/1988

Music by Alan Bush

This collection, arriving in good time for Alan Bush's ninety-fifth birthday in December, nearly doubles the amount of his music...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1995

Schubert Mass No 6

Long the Cinderella work of Schubert’s miraculous final year, the E flat Mass is now acknowledged as a powerful masterpiece...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 5/2008

Prokofiev Piano Concertos Nos. 1-5

Here, in brilliantly refreshed sound, is a reissue of Prokofiev’s five piano concertos, first released in 1990 and now appearing...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/2009

Bach Oboe Concertos. Triple Concerto

While Bach himself would have recognized every bar of music contained in this programme of concertos and sinfonias, it is...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1997

Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht; Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6

Very much the critics’ darling at the moment, Mariss Jansons took up the post of Chief Conductor of the Bavarian...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 0/0

Maxwell Davies (The) Doctor of Myddfai

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies continues to divide the critics – even within these pages, where his oratorio Job (1997) was...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/1998

(The) Majesty of Thy Glory

This substantial and festal programme contrasts three settings of the Te Deum spanning 250 years of English composers, from Purcell...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 4/2011

Liszt Funeral Odes

The titles betray the dominant mood. This is the elderly Liszt, the visionary and philosopher preoccupied with mortality, musing on...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 5/2011

Vivaldi Sacred Vocal Works

The French countertenor, Gerard Lesne is probably best known in the UK for his recordings with William Christie and Les...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1991

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