These performances are full of flair... A fine, revealing cycle. -Gramophone
Vocally she (Sills) is in excellent shape, the soft singing often touching, dazzling us with the ease with which she undertakes the most complicated decorations. -Fanfare
"Bowyer shows himself to be a remarkably astute interpreter of these bite-size preludes. They dance, they sing, they mourn, all within their tiny time-spans; perfectly formed microcosms of Bach's supreme genius in the chorale prelude genre. Bowyer gauges their scale to perfection." —Gramophone (Volume VII)
Finally, Kevin Bowyer's Complete Bach Organ Works in one boxed set — 17 Volumes on 29 CDs!
Organist Kevin Bowyer must be [more]
"Haydn's crowning achievement." —Groves
Rarely has a series of recordings garnered the attention afforded the remarkable collection of the Complete Haydn Symphonies as performed by the [more]
“The ASV/Musical Heritage recordings do full sonic justice to the rich, warm, always lucid textures of the Lindsay’s playing. For its sheer comprehensiveness of musical understanding, expressive power, technical address, and stylistic acumen, the Lindsay set has given me more pleasure, and a more vivid sense of Beethoven made manifest, than any I have previously encountered.” —Fanfare
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"Thrilling ... a conductor with the fire, ardor and precision of Toscanini." —Fanfare
"Without doubt this is one of the great Beethoven Quartet recordings in the catalogue." —San Francisco Chronicle
Outstanding...passionate in a very Russian way...the Concertgebouw players responding with total conviction. -Penguin CD Guide
With Paul Newman as the narrator, a superb cast of singers and the New York Choral Artists, this is THE recording of this beautiful poignant masterpiece.
"There are quite a few Schubert Symphony sets out there, and this one definitely belongs near the top of the class. The recorded sound on all of these discs is quite formidable." — American Record Guide
Schubert, the consummate songwriter, also manifested a remarkable commitment to the symphony as a form, although he left several unfinished, including his famous and [more]
Hymnody is at the very core of Western music. In Jewish liturgy, the word is fused inseparably with melody as a means toward making its [more]
When most of us think of Scandinavian music, the names Grieg and Sibelius first come to mind. The more adventurous of us have probably [more]
For most of us in the late 20th century, the term transcription carries a lot of negative baggage — musically meretricious, phony, not the genuine article, a cheap knock-off product, a [more]
The fascination of the 48, as the preludes and fugues of the Well-Tempered Clavier are affectionately known, has not only persisted but grown exponentially [more]