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Paul Robson Legacy (The)
Geoff Gascoyne | Guy Barker | Mark Doffman | Neal Thornton | Richard Bolton | Willard White
As crossover ideas go‚ the idea of Willard White singing songs of Paul Robeson is an excellent one. Both are‚...
Reviewed in issue 8/2002
Vuori Symphonies Nos 1 & 2
Hyvinkää Orchestra | Tuomas Pirilä
Harri Vuori (b1957) came relatively late to music, not starting to study until his mid-teens. His teachers included Heininen, Hämeenniemi...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 9/2008
Bach Motets
Bo Holten | Flemish Radio Choir
In the booklet, Bo Holten and interviewer Mark Wiggins discuss the performance practice options open to modern performers in a...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 3/2009
Penderecki (A) Polish Requiem
When Krzysztof Penderecki conducted the first complete recording of his Polish Requiem, the soloists were Polish but the orchestra and...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 1/2005
Bach, CPE; Graf; Haydn Concerti brillanti
Jan Vogler | Munich Chamber Orchestra | Reinhard Goebel
To offer three world premiere recordings among these four 18th_century concertos is enterprising enough, so we can forgive Jan Vogler...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 6/2008
Mozart Demofoonte
Bruno Weil | Cappella Coloniensis
Mozart contemplated setting Metastasio’s famous libretto Demofoonte while he was at Paris in 1778, but never acted on it. So...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2008
Rautavaara Violin Concerto; Symphony No 8, 'The Journey'
Jaakko Kuusisto | Lahti Symphony Orchestra | Osmo Vänskä
Rautavaara’s Eighth Symphony (1999) was among the first major new pieces available as a web-stream before it appeared on disc....
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 1/2005
R.Strauss Symphony in F minor, Op 12; Romanze in F
Hiroshi Wakasugi | Mari Fujiwara | Tokyo Symphony Orchestra
''Papa will open his eyes wide when he hears how modern the Symphony sounds''; but then 'Papa' was the arch-conservative...
Reviewed in issue 9/1994
Tavener (The) Protecting Veil; Last Sleep of the Virgin
Carlo Willems | France Springuel | I Fiamminghi | Rudolf Werthen
There are now five recordings of Tavener’s The Protecting Veil available on CD – a worthy indication of a contemporary...
Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 2/1999
Dittersdorf 6 Symphonies after Ovid's Metamorphoses
Kurt Rapf | Vienna Sinfonietta
Dittersdorf's Six Symphonies after Ovid's Metamorphoses, written about the time of Haydn's ''Paris'' Symphonies and Mozart's Prague Symphony, are less...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/1990
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