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MACMILLAN Consecration
Linn’s survey of James MacMillan’s choral music with the Scottish professional chamber choir Cappella Nova has now reached its fourth...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 01/2022
Boulez/Wuorinen Piano Sonatas
Lovely performances, most sensitively engineered, of three works inspired by the sublime artistry of Leon Goossens. Gordon Hunt, currently the...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/1997
Boulez Eclat; Sur Incises
Ed Spanjaard | Ensemble InterContemporain, Paris | Nieuw Ensemble | Pierre Boulez
Boulez was born for DVD. The Tai Chi-meets-Bruce Lee choreography of his conducting is a visual feast in itself, while...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 5/2006
READ THOMAS Selected Works for Orchestra
Despite the steady number of works that have appeared on various labels, Augusta Read Thomas (b1964) has not had the...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2014
McMillan Into the Ferment
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | James MacMillan | Martin Roscoe
The Berserking, a piano concerto dating from 1989 (just before James MacMillan attracted wider public attention with The Confession of...
Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 10/2003
MacMillan (The) Birds of Rhiannon; Magnificat; Nunc Dimittis
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | BBC Singers | John Scott
Last time I bothered to monitor its trajectory‚ the authorised critical pendulum indicated that MacMillan had strayed too deeply into...
Reviewed in issue 9/2002
MacMillan Visitatio sepulchri; Busqueda
One brief but significant moment in the Passion-Resurrection narrative forms the basis of James MacMillan's ''sacred opera'' Visitatio Sepulchri. Standing...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 4/1995
MacMillan Mass and Sacred Music
Andrew Reid | Martin Baker | Westminster Cathedral Choir
It is hardly surprising, given their quality and compelling nature, that record companies have so far focused on James MacMillan’s...
Reviewed in issue 6/2001
BOULEZ Mémoriale. Dérive 1 & 2
Daniel Kawka | Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain | Fabrice Jünger
In 2006 Elliott Carter’s longevity and Pierre Boulez’s slow-coach approach to composition met in the middle, when Carter, then 98,...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 07/2012
Pergolesi Lo frate 'nnamorato
It's scarcely possible to speak of an 'early work' in the case of a composer who died at the age...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 7/1991
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