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Pinchas Zukerman plays & conducts Haydn
English Chamber Orchestra | Gordon Hunt | Pinchas Zukerman | Ralph Kirshbaum | Robin O'Neill
This mixed Haydn concert opens with a highly sophisticated performance of the urbane Sinfonia concertante written in London (which Hoboken’s...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 1/1996
RASKATOV Monk's Music
Emma Denton | Eoin Schmidt-Martin | Gordon Jones | Matthew Denton | Michelle Fleming
Those who attended English National Opera’s production of Alexander Raskatov’s A Dog’s Heart in 2010 and came out both repulsed...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 02/2015
FRANCK. GRIEG Violin Sonatas
It’s always a pleasure to welcome a new voice, especially one as talented as Callum Smart. Just 17 at the...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 03/2014
CROSSE Concerto for Chamber Orchestra. Concertino
Lyrita’s mining of the Richard Itter archive continues with a further disc of Gordon Crosse, whose belated return to composing...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2017
Heddle Nash sings Opera Arias & Songs
Admonishing those who bewailed the decline from golden-age standards in singing, George Bernard Shaw said that they couldn't impose on...
Reviewed in issue 8/1989
Albert In Concordiam; Treestone
James Joyce has meant a great deal to twentieth-century composers such as Cage and Berio. The American Stephen Albert is...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 6/1990
Mixed Doubles: Double Concertos by Manduell and Crosse
Alison Teale | Manchester Sinfonia | Matthew Jones | Richard Simpson | Timothy Reynish
All three works by the Lancastrian Gordon Crosse (b1937) on this enterprising release were penned during the summer and autumn...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2014
Langford Orchestral Classics
BBC Concert Orchestra | Crispian Steele-Perkins | Rumon Gamba | William Stephenson
Listening to this generous and engaging collection, I cannot help but reflect again that this kind of stylish, tuneful and...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 13/2003
Playhouse Aires-18th Cent English Theatre Music
London Oboe Band | Paul Goodwin
The London Oboe Band must come close to being a unique outfit, not only for its unusual combination of (on...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 6/1997
British Violin Concertos
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra | Clare Howick | Grant Llewellyn
All three composers were (or are) career academics, but it’s notable how Paul Patterson’s concerto of 2013 wants most to...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2018
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