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Boulez (Le) marteau sans maître
After sur Incises, Dérive 2 (1988/2002) is Boulez’s most extended recent work. Like sur Incises, it is a sonic firework...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 5/2005
Franck Symphony. Le chasseur maudit
Philadelphia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti
There are plenty of intensely subjective readings of the Franck Symphony about, Muti's crisply objective performance, scrupulous in its avoidance...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/1988
Boulez Pli selon Pli
Christine Schäfer | Ensemble InterContemporain, Paris | Pierre Boulez
Back in 1996‚ when Pierre Boulez’s first recording of Pli selon Pli was reissued on CD (Sony Classical‚ 7/96)‚ I...
Reviewed in issue 7/2002
North Star
Deborah Calland | William Whitehead
Deborah Calland has established quite a niche for herself at a time when the trumpet is enjoying prominence as a...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 9/2006
MACMILLAN String Quartets (Royal Quartet)
The cover of this disc of string quartets by James MacMillan is a simple illustration of a dense, web-like tangle...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2018
Ars longa: Old and new music for Theorbo (Elizabeth Kenny)
At first glance, it is hard to imagine anything cheerful coming from a theorbo. It even looks like an instrument...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2019
MACMILLAN Alpha & Omega
Alan Tavener | Cappella Nova | Madeleine Mitchell
It’s no coincidence that the same early music groups who specialise in Renaissance polyphony are increasingly making a second study...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2014
MACMILLAN Stabat Mater
(The) Sixteen | Britten Sinfonia | Harry Christophers
In their separate but extremely effusive booklet essays, both Harry Christophers and the work’s dedicatee, John Studzinski, describe James MacMillan’s...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2017
Ascension
Matthew Owens | St Mary's Cathedral Choir, Edinburgh
The striking geometrics of this disc’s cover set the visionary tone to a tee. Segments of Sir Eduardo Paolozzi’s stained...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 2/2004
MacMillan Choral Works
Jonathan Vaughn | Matthew Owens | Wells Cathedral Choir
The Choir of Wells Cathedral lives up to its reputation as Britain’s best cathedral choir (see Gramophone, 1/11) in this...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/2011
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