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RANDS Chains Like the Sea
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | Clark Rundell | Johannes Moser
Opening this orchestral portrait of the American-British composer Bernard Rands is a Latino dance with a difference. There is no...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2019
SAY Complete Violin Works
Maverick, mercurial, outspoken, charismatic, Fazıl Say (b1970) is the composer-laureate of Turkey, as works such as the oratorio Nâzım (2001),...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2020
Scaramella: Obrecht, Fitch, Brumel, Agricola
Andrew Kirkman | Binchois Consort
Obrecht’s Missa Scaramella has a bizarre history. We have only two of its original four voice-parts, known from an apparently...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: AW2024
BERIO Sinfonia BOULEZ Notations I-IV RAVEL La valse (Morlot)
Ludovic Morlot | Roomful of Teeth | Seattle Symphony Orchestra
In the documentary Voyage to Cythera, Berio makes it clear that the many musical references in the third movement of...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2018
Gluck Iphigénie en Tauride
The temper of this performance is clear from the opening bars. This is a large-scale reading of the work, intended...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 10/1993
KOCH Symphonies Nos 3 & 4
Per Hammarström | Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Erland von Koch (1910-2009) was very prolific in a composing career lasting over eight decades. A number of his works...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2016
Li Due Orfei. Haec Dies: Music for Easter
Angelique Mauillon | Clare College Choir, Cambridge | Graham Ross | Marc Mauillon | Matthew Jorysz
We all know what you get from an Oxbridge choral disc – at least we did until Graham Ross arrived...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2016
TCHAIKOVSKY; GRIEG Piano Concertos
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | Denis Kozhukhin | Vassily Sinaisky
After rubbing your eyes and maybe even hitting your forehead with the palm of your hand a few times to...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 05/2016
MENDELSSOHN Songs Without Words
Few pieces conjure up more immediately and vividly the comfortable middle-class world of the 1840s than Mendelssohn’s Songs Without Words....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2016
FRANDSEN Requiem
Complete settings of the Requiem Mass by Scandinavian composers are few and far between. Rarer still are those by Danes....
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2014
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