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ARNESEN Magnificat KERNIS Musica Celestis
Nidarosdomens jentekor | Trondheim Soloists
Although this disc was recorded in the northernmost medieval cathedral in the world (in Trondheim), there is nothing chilly about...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2015
Poema: Works for Cello and Strings
Juha Kangas | Keski-Pohjanmaan Kamariorkesteri | Marko Ylönen | Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra
Erkki Salmenhaara (1941-2002) was at one time an avant-garde firebrand, his first three symphonies (1962 64) and some other works...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2015
SCHUMANN Symphonies Nos 1 - 4
Odense Symphony Orchestra | Simon Gaudenz
Schumann symphony cycles have been arriving thick and fast recently, from Nézet-Séguin, Ticciati and Rattle. And not so many years...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2015
KRAUS Viola Concertos
David Aaron Carpenter | Janne Nisonen | Ritta Pesola | Tapiola Sinfonietta
Joseph Martin Kraus is best known for being born in the same year as Mozart and for writing the music...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2012
Rarities of Piano Music at Schloss vor Husum
The Schloss vor Husum Festival has just marked its its 25th year. A celebration of the byways of piano literature,...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2011
DESTOUCHES & DELALANDE Les Éléments
Les Surprises was co-founded by Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas in 2010. In what has become a French tradition, the group...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2016
TALLIS Spem in alium
(The) Cardinall's Musick | Andrew Carwood
With Spem in alium (or, in its English guise, Sing and glorify), The Cardinall’s Musick conclude their Tallis explorations in...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2016
REICH WTC 9/11. Different Trains
Steve Reich began transforming speech into music in the mid 1960s. I vividly remember my first encounter with Come Out...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2016
HO The Shaman. Arctic Symphony
Alexander Mickelthwate | The Nunavut Sivuniksavut Performers | Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
Vincent Ho (b1975) is a native of Ottawa, though of Chinese heritage. During 2007 14 he was Composer-in-Residence with the...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2018
Scenes From Home: Music for clarinet and piano by Colorado composers
Kellan Toohey, a gifted young clarinettist from Colorado, has bestowed a lovely gift upon composers ‘who are either from Colorado,...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 11/2018
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