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CHOPIN Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2
Akiko Ebi | Frans Brüggen | Janusz Olejniczak | Orchestra of the 18th Century
This latest release from the very proactive Fryderyk Chopin Institute pairs live recordings of the two concertos. Common to both...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2015
FUJIKURA Secret Forest
NMC’s Debut Discs series continues with a timely profile of Dai Fujikura – Osaka-born and London-based, whose music is an...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 12/2012
HANDEL Giove in Argo (Jupiter in Argos)
During the 1730s Handel baked three pasticci compiled from his own compositions: Oreste (1734) and Alessandro Severo (1738) were designed...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2013
BRAHMS Ein Deutsches Requiem (Hill)
Matt Sullivan | Natasha Schnur | Yale Schola Cantorum
Despite being widely performed since its publication in 2010, the chamber-scaled arrangement of the Requiem by the flautist Johannes Linckelmann...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW18
LAITMAN 'The Ocean of Eternity'
As I noted with her previous Acis release, ‘Are Women People?’ (10/21), Lori Laitman’s works are often emotional in expression...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2022
CHIHARA Take the A Train
Paul Chihara (b1938) is well known as a film composer – starting with Death Race 2000 for Roger Corman in 1975 –...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2017
SALONEN Works for Cello (Wilhelmina Smith; Yo-Yo Ma)
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra | Wilhelmina Smith | Yo-Yo Ma
Wilhelmina Smith’s recording underlines one of the fundamental differences between these two composers born in Finland just six years apart....
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2019
Boulez Orchestral and Chamber Works
These discs chart the ceaseless exploration of Boulez’s early creativity. Back in 1946, the First Piano Sonata revealed the 21-year-old...
Reviewed in issue 5/2001
Donizetti Don Pasquale
It is good to find the fruity quality of Claudio Desderi’s voice still firm and flavoursome. In 2006 he was...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/2008
Scriabin Symphony No 1
Michael Myers | Philadelphia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti | Stefania Toczyska | Westminster Choir
I found myself carried away by this unfamiliar work; here are melodies galore, sometime reminders of other works by other...
Reviewed in issue 3/1986
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