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Stockhausen Gruppen & Kurtàg Stele etc
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Claudio Abbado | Friedrich Goldman | Jürgen Ruck | Marcus Creed
Experiencing Stockhausen’s Gruppen in the concert-hall – or on television, as in Channel 4’s film of the 1996 CBSO performance...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/1997
Rossini Il barbiere di Siviglia
Abbado's Barbiere may only just have appeared on CD, but it is a good ten years older than Marriner's, and,...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 10/1986
After the Tryst: New music for saxophone and piano
The saxophone repertoire has expanded considerably over recent decades, though the soprano instrument still tends to be overlooked owing to...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2018
Down By the Sea
Blossom Street | Gustav Holst | Judith Bingham | Percy Grainger
Blossom Street was founded at York University in 2003 before gravitating to London. The ensemble’s second disc for Naxos, a...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: AW2013
Vivaldi The Four Seasons; Concerto for Orchestra, RV577
Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Claudio Abbado | Viktoria Mullova
Which composer wrote 220 violin concertos, the Famous Four of which have been recorded about as many times (over two...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 1/1988
A Hilliard Songbook-New Music for Voices
The Hilliard Ensemble have always had an interest in commissioning and performing works by living composers, but apart from a...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 1/1997
Peripheral Visions
Alison Smart | Katharine Durran
This wide-ranging, efficiently-recorded selection of British compositions since 1970 culminates in the work by George Nicholson that gives the disc...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/1999
Ligeti - Clear or Cloudy
So DG is the first record company to honour/cash in on the death of Ligeti in June. Actually I hope...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2006
ROSSINI William Tell (Pappano)
It was the gratuitous rape of a young woman by officers answerable to their Austrian Gauleiter during the Act 3 Pas...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2017
20th Century Vocal Works
Budapest Chamber Ensemble | Erika Sziklay
This is by no means a new recording, but the sound is so remarkably vivid, scarred only slightly by some...
Reviewed in issue 10/1987
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