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MACMILLAN Veni, Veni, Emmanuel
Colin Currie | Gordan Nikolic | James MacMillan | Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra
It was probably both a blessing and a curse that James MacMillan should have enjoyed such phenomenal success with his...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: AW/2012
MACMILLAN Missa Dunelmi
Durham Cathedral Choir | Francesca Massey | Guy de Lioncourt | James Lancelot | Margaret Simper
James MacMillan’s brief unaccompanied Mass for Durham Cathedral is here surrounded by a motley selection of carols, motets, anthems and...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 02/2013
MACMILLAN; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Oboe Concertos
Britten Sinfonia | Nicholas Daniel
The Britten Sinfonia’s latest offering launches with a deeply understanding performance of Vaughan Williams’s Oboe Concerto from Nicholas Daniel. It...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2015
MACMILLAN Organ Works (Stephen Farr)
This handsome new release brings together all of James MacMillan’s organ music to date, spanning some 36 years of composition...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2020
Britannia
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra | Donald Runnicles
The release of this all-British programme coincided with the announcement that Donald Runnicles will be returning to his native Scotland...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2007
Homage à Boulez
There were those who used the occasion of Pierre Boulez’s death in 2016 to reiterate the same-old-same-old narrative about the...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 06/2017
DVOŘÁK String Quartet No 13. Cypresses. Waltzes
While not quite matching the dynamism and idiomatic accents of the Pavel Haas Quartet, the Cecilia String Quartet offer a...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2012
HAYDN String Quartet Op 64/6 SCHUMANN String Quartet Op 41/1
Slender tone, soft, delicate and withdrawn greets you at the start of Schumann’s First Quartet, the Introduzione played Andante espressivo...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 10/2012
Turnage This Silence
This is the third disc from the Nash Ensemble devoted to the music of Mark-Anthony Turnage and it is, in...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 1/2006
Turnage Your rockaby
More and more, the art of composition has been democratized by the instant accessibility of sounds, pictures and ideas from...
Reviewed in issue 10/1996
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