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Lessel Works for Piano
Jerzy Salwarowski | Jerzy Sterczynski | Silesian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
Franciszek Lessel (1780–1838) belongs to a generation of Polish composers who, in the wake of the Third Partition of 1775...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1993
Copland: Orchestral Works
Leonard Slatkin | St Louis Symphony Orchestra
Should you by any chance have purchased the Hickox disc before reading this, you may be aware by now that...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/1989
R. Strauss & Bloch Orchestral Works
Emanuel Feuermann | Eugene Ormandy | Leopold Stokowski | Philadelphia Orchestra | Samuel Lifschey
Ormandy was perhaps at his best during his Minneapolis days and in the early part of his long reign at...
Reviewed in issue 12/1991
Tallis Motets & Lamentations
(The) King's Noyse | David Douglass | Paul Hillier | Theatre of Voices
This reminds me of the sort of programme planning one was likely to encounter on late night BBC Radio 3...
Reviewed by prussell in issue: 7/1996
King's Singers La Dolce Vita
King's Singers | Simon Carrington | Tragicomedia
Renaissance Naples was a place where, in a pre-disco age—and when it may have been safer to walk its streets...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 9/1992
Bach St Matthew Passion
Bach's St Matthew Passion is a sacred drama on an unprecedented scale. He created it as an integral part of...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1989
Rouse, C Orchestral Works
(Royal) Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra | Alan Gilbert | Martin Fröst
One of America’s most individual creative voices, Christopher Rouse (b1949) is a Romantic who writes music that is anything but...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 1/2009
Beethoven Septet; String Quintet, Op 29
Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble
Beethoven’s String Quintet does not get as many performances or recordings as such a fine and original work deserves. Perhaps...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1999
Kancheli Abii ne Viderem
Many years ago Kancheli wrote of his aim to ''transmit a sensation of beauty, durability, and light flowing from above......
Reviewed in issue 4/1995
Allegri's Miserere and the Music of Rome
(The) Cardinall's Musick | Andrew Carwood
Following their Gramophone Recording of the Year Award for 2010, Andrew Carwood and Hyperion have risked all to record a...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 3/2011
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