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New Year's Concert 1993
Riccardo Muti | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Arriving from Philips in double-quick time this is one of the most infectiously enjoyable of ail the recordings of New...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1993
Boito Mefistofele
Milan La Scala Chorus | Milan La Scala Orchestra | Riccardo Muti
Counting video and LaserDisc, there are currently five versions of Mefistofele in the catalogue (three of them featuring Samuel Ramey...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/1996
1997 New Year's Day Concert
Riccardo Muti | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
One of the wonders each year of the Vienna Philharmonic’s New Year’s Day Concert is the way it illuminates and...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1997
Cherubini Missa Solemnis; Motets
The latest in Riccardo Muti’s sequence of Cherubini Masses is one of the least known, the eighth of the 11,...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/2007
GORDON Clouded Yellow
Kronos Quartet | Young People's Chorus of New York City
Michael Gordon (b1956) has enjoyed a productive relationship with the Kronos Quartet stretching back to the beginning of the century,...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW18
FAGERLUND Oceano
BIS continues to explore the Finnish composer Sebastian Fagerlund (b1972) with this overview of chamber music from the past 15...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2021
MacMillan Northern Skies - Works for Cello and Piano.
Graham Scott | Henri Demarquette
MacMillan’s two cello sonatas were composed in 1998 and 2000, yet in many ways they are poles apart. The two-movement...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 8/2007
MACMILLAN Since it was the Day of Preparation
Brindley Sherratt | Hebrides Ensemble | Synergy Vocals
Few composers in recent times have so unequivocally brought their faith into the concert arena as has James MacMillan. Here...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 08/2016
A New Heaven
Owen Rees | Oxford Queen's College Choir | Rebecca Baker
The Choir of The Queen’s College, Oxford, sing with tonal warmth, excellent tuning, impressive blend and without the clipped, prissy...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2017
MACMILLAN Symphony No 4. Viola Concerto (Lawrence Power)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | Lawrence Power | Martyn Brabbins
Onyx’s 2016 release of James MacMillan’s Symphony No 4 featured this large-scale single-movement work alongside the composer’s Violin Concerto. Here...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2020
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