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Lachenmann NUN
Ensemble Modern Orchestra | Markus Stenz | Schola Heidelberg | Ueli Wiget
Both these releases qualify as essential listening. Though composed about 15 years apart, NUN and Ausklang have much in common....
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 1/2008
Bach Wohltemperirite Klavier
Here are two recent issues of Book 1 of Bach's 48 or, more properly Das Wohltemperierte Clavier. Recently issued, certainly,...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1990
Nielsen Aladdin
So far Nielsen's music to Adam Oehlenschlager's Aladdin has been known only from the (relatively familiar) seven-movement suite, Op. 34,...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 5/1993
Brahms: Works for viola and piano
François-René Duchâble | Gérard Caussé | Nathalie Stutzmann
The fact that this new record plays for 57'43'' as against the Talich/Bogunia's 39'28'' on Calliope is not just because...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1986
Schubert Complete Lieder, Vol.24
Renewed praise first of all for Graham Johnson, author of this huge project. We should feel privileged to be present...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1996
J. Adams Shaker Loops; Light Over Water
Shaker Loops was John Adams's first major success, and for all the media coverage of his more recent, often more...
Reviewed in issue 12/1990
Handel Israel in Egypt
There was a time when Israel in Egypt was second only to Messiah in popularity among Handel’s choral works. Both...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2000
Schubert Impromptus
''Rejuvenated'' was the word chosen by Michael Oliver when Brendel's oldish recording of the Impromptus reappeared on CD this April....
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 10/1984
Benedict; Macfarren (The) Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol 48
Howard Shelley | Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Sir Julius Benedict (German-born, he was knighted in 1871) was central to musical life in Victorian England. His opera The...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2009
Elgar/Britten Violin Concertos
It is a matter for welcome when an issue such as this one featuring two British violin concertos of our...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 11/1989
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