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MACMILLAN Symphony No 5. The Sun Danced (Christophers)
(The) Sixteen | Britten Sinfonia | Harry Christophers | Mary Bevan
To Mahler’s well-known remark that the symphony must be like the world, containing everything, James MacMillan appears to be finding...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 06/2020
Rossini Il viaggio a Reims
Paris always brought out the epicure in Rossini: in the 1820s and again, after years of debilitating illness, in the...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/1986
BRUCKNER Symphony No 1
Claudio Abbado | Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Buyer beware: if you snapped up DG’s Claudio Abbado Symphony Edition, released earlier this year to celebrate the great man’s...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 11/2013
Schumann Piano Concerto & Piano Quintet
It makes an unusual and apt coupling to have the Schumann Piano Concerto alongside the most powerful of his chamber...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/2000
Mussorgsky Boris Godunov
Where opera is concerned, our generation will undoubtedly be remembered for its emphasis on restoring scores to their pristine state,...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1994
BRUCKNER Symphony No 9
Claudio Abbado | Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Most of the differences between this Bruckner Ninth Symphony, which was recorded in concert just five months before Claudio Abbado’s...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2014
Mussorgsky Orchestral & Choral Works
Claudio Abbado | London Symphony Chorus (amateur) | London Symphony Orchestra | Zehava Gal
This is a well-merited reissue of some Mussorgsky rarities by one of his most intelligent and forceful modern champions, Claudio...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/1993
In Sorrow’s Footsteps
Marian Consort | Rory McCleery
The opening chords of Gabriel Jackson’s Stabat mater, their dissonant points hammered like nails into the ear, make for an...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2018
A Song of Farewell: Music of Mourning & Consolation
Gabrieli Consort | Paul McCreesh
Any disc subtitled ‘Music of Mourning & Consolation’ is not going to be a bundle of laughs. But Paul McCreesh...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2012
BRUCKNER Symphony No 9 (Schaller)
Gerd Schaller | Philharmonie Festiva
Recent advances in understanding of Bruckner’s work on the unfinished finale of his Ninth Symphony, including the recognition that the...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 08/2017
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