Renegade Heaven

Bang on a Can All-Stars

‘Renegade Heaven’ represents a welcome return to the rawer, downtown approach of Bang on a Can’s second CD for Sony...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Bang on a Can Industry

Cees van Zeeland | Evan Ziporyn | Gerard Bouwhuis | Icebreaker | Lisa Moore | Mark Stewart | Maya Beiser | Robert Black | Steven Schik

Following the partial eclipse of traditional modernism, new forms of new music are currently being welcomed into mainstream concert-halls and...

Reviewed in issue 2/1996

Of Eternal Light

Musica Sacra Orchestra | Richard Westenburg

Meredith Monk's Return to Earth juxtaposes African-style rhythmic vocalizations and minimalist reiteration of harmonic/melodic cells. It clearly requires as much...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/1993

Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice

Gillian Webster | Hartmut Haenchen | Jeremy Budd | Jochen Kowalski | Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden | Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden

Oh dear. What has poor Orpheus, the embodiment of music itself, done to deserve this? After the horrors of Nigel...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 13/2005

1865: Songs of Hope and Home from the American Civil War’

Anonymous 4 are retiring. Not immediately, but the American all-female vocal quartet have announced their decision to go their separate...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2015

Mahler Das Lied von der Erde

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | James King | Leonard Bernstein | Peter Seiffert | Simon Rattle | Thomas Hampson | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

“A symphony for tenor, alto (or baritone), and orchestra.” So is the baritone option more than just a bracketed alternative?...

Reviewed in issue 2/1997

Silent Noon Songs of Vaughan Williams

Levering Rothfuss | Nancy Bean | Ruth Golden | Thomas Woodman

Heartfelt gratitude is due, in the first place, for Along the Field. A recording was made by Nancy Evans and...

Reviewed in issue 5/1994

Beethoven Works for Chorus and Orchestra

Berlin Radio Chorus | Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | Bodil Arnesen | Helga Lehner | Karl Anton Rickenbacher | Konstantin Restle | Renate Erxleben

This is a collection of chips from the great man’s workbench, some of them thin shavings but none of them...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/1996

MOZART Symphony in D, K385. Posthorn Serenade. March No 1, K335

Vienna Concentus Musicus

A Harnoncourt recording will always leave a reviewer with a full page of notes, but let me go straight to...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2014

Constant Lambert Conducts

BBC Chorus | Constant Lambert | Gladys Ripley | Kyla Greenbaum | Philharmonia Orchestra | Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra | Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden

In 1988 EMI issued a ''Constant Lambert Conducts'' LP in their Treasury Series which I reviewed in October of that...

Reviewed in issue 9/1992