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Denyer Finding Refuge in the Remains
(The) Barton Workshop | Alex Robertson | Frank Denyer
Few composers employ sound in the creation of form more imaginatively than Frank Denyer. Listening to ‘The Tender Sadness of...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 10/1999
Bach St Matthew Passion
They couldn’t be more different. Riccardo Chailly uses modern instruments including similarly pitched oboes d’amore and viola da gamba, to...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 6/2010
Ravel Orchestral Works
Charles Dutoit | Montreal Symphony Orchestra | Pascal Rogé
The HMV coupling of Ravel's concertos by Jean-Philippe Collard and Lorin Maazel won much praise and a Gramophone Record Award....
Reviewed in issue 8/1983
Margherita Carosio-The Early Recordings
“Undeniably a clever coloratura soprano. Yet her voice sounds hard, glottic, and at times even unsympathetic. Everything is bright, glittering,...
Reviewed in issue 5/1997
Beethoven: Piano Concertos and Choral Fantasia
On CD, as on LP, it makes a generous package having all five Beethoven piano concertos as well as the...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1986
Bachiana Two
Cologne Musica Antiqua | Reinhard Goebel
This is the second ‘Bachiana’ disc from Musica Antiqua Köln, a concept which draws its inspiration from Bach documents and...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 7/2003
Bruckner Symphony No 2
Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Georg Solti
Like Karajan, Solti has turned rather late in the day to Bruckner's earliest symphonies; and on the evidence of this...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 8/1993
Bruckner Choral Works
(La) Chapelle Royale Choir | Ghent Collegium Vocale | Musique Oblique Ensemble | Philippe Herreweghe
Beside the great vaulted structures of his symphonies, Bruckner's liturgical music could seem rather insignificant. But Bruckner, the devout church...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 8/1992
Chen (The) Butterfly Lovers Concerto
James Judd | New Zealand Symphony Orchestra | Takako Nishizaki
The Butterfly Lovers Concerto belongs to China’s communist era; the work of students Chen Gang (b1935) and He Zhanho (b1933),...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/2004
Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Emil Gilels II
Emil Gilels | Lorin Maazel | New Philharmonia Orchestra
I thought I would be mourning the omission of Gilels’s Liszt Sonata from this series, or indeed his Shostakovich Second...
Reviewed in issue 6/1999
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