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BARTÓK; HINDEMITH; PROKOFIEV Solo Violin Sonatas
This follow-up to Feng’s 2010 collection ‘Solo’ (11/10) has more of a musical thesis running through it than its predecessor’s...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: AW2013
R JONES Chamber Airs for a Violin
Kreeta-Maria Kentala | Lauri Pulakka | Mitzi Meyerson
In the early 1990s there was a rash of discs of little-known Baroque instrumental music issued on mainstream labels, either...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 10/2012
BEETHOVEN; SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartets
While the composer himself was reluctant to break faith with the technically less proficient Beethoven Quartet, concert-goers and record buyers...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2012
NORDHEIM Monolith. Epitaffio. Canzona. Fonos. Adieu
Jukka-Pekka Saraste | Marius Hesby | Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra | Rolf Gupta
In his time Arne Nordheim (1931-2010) was the most abused and celebrated composer in Norway. The change in attitude from...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2012
Boulez Miscellaneous Works
This may not be the Boulez record needed most urgently by students and admirers of his music: that would contain...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/1992
Donizetti Don Pasquale
No other set of this work has yet appeared on CD, so this estimable four-year-old version has the field to...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1988
MacMillan Piano Concerto No 2; (A) Scotch Bestiary
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | James MacMillan | Wayne Marshall
Jointly commissioned by the BBC and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, James MacMillan’s A Scotch Bestiary is “motivated by the great...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2006
(An) Eternal Harmony
(The) Sixteen | Harry Christophers
At the centre of this recording stand the large-scale choral works of Robert Carver, canon of Scone (d1546). His music...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 1/2003
MacMillan Visitatio Sepulchri; Sun-Dogs
It is remarkable that a Dutch choir can offer such strong and polished performances of these two choral works by...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2010
MacMillan (The) World's Ransoming; Cello Concerto
The three works on these two CDs comprise James MacMillian’s Easter triptych Triduum (1996-7). They are a believer’s response to...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 5/1999
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