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MacMILLAN Miserere. Strathclyde motets. O bone Jesu
(The) Sixteen | Harry Christophers
Dedicated to Harry Christophers, who directed The Sixteen in the first performance at the Flanders Festival in August 2009, Miserere...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/2011
MACMILLAN Visions of a November Spring
Here we have James MacMillan’s earliest foray into the string quartet medium. Taking its title from an expression marking found...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: AW2014
Bruckner Symphony No 1
Claudio Abbado | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Abbado recorded this symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic way back in 1970 (Decca, 1/71 – nla). Since, in those days,...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/1997
Berg: Vocal and Orchestral Works
Claudio Abbado | London Symphony Orchestra | Margaret Price
I have enjoyed these beautiful and eloquent performances very much on LP, and was greatly looking forward to the CD...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/1988
Ravel orchestral works
Claudio Abbado | London Symphony Orchestra
There is much to admire in these performances under Abbado, who secures consistently polished and refined playing from the LSO....
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1986
Mussorgsky St John's Night on the Bare Mountain; Khovanshchina-excerpts
No work of Mussorgsky’s – even Mussorgsky’s – has a more tangled history than St John’s Night on the Bare...
Reviewed in issue 1/1998
Rossini Il Viaggio a Reims
The rediscovery of Rossini's dazzling, sophisticated coronation entertainment Il viaggio a Reims was one of the musical highlights of the...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1993
Janáceck Sinfonietta; Diary
I wasn't aware until now that an orchestral version of Diary existed. It isn't Janacek's, I hasten to add, but...
Reviewed in issue 5/1989
Hindemith Kammermusik Nos 2, 3, 6 & 7.
Not so long ago recordings of Hindemith's Kammermusiken were few and far between; now there are at least five available...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 5/2000
softLOUD
Following live festival performances last year, the talented young Scottish guitarist Sean Shibe brings this bracingly original concert programme featuring...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: AW18
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