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Bach & Brahms orchestrated Schoenberg
Christoph Eschenbach | Houston Symphony Orchestra
In terms of style, the Schoenberg Piano Quartet orchestration is rather like a private conversation re-scripted for the theatre. Only...
Reviewed in issue 10/1997
Stockhausen Michael's Farewell
Michael’s Farewell is the music heard after the end of Stockhausen’s first Licht opera, Donnerstag (1980), when, on the occasion...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/2003
Glass Symphonie Nos 2 & 3
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra | Marin Alsop
‘There’s one piece by Philip Glass that I really like.’‘Which one?’‘Any one.’Old joke. Awfully droll, eh? And, for a reviewer,...
Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 12/2004
Duruflé Requiem; Messe Cum Jubilo; Poulenc Sacred Choral Works
Christopher Gray | Peter Dijkstra | Robert Sharpe | The Gents | Truro Cathedral Choir
The first performance of Duruflé’s Requiem, in Paris just after the Second World War, no doubt owed some of its...
Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 8/2005
Romantic Piano Concerto, Volume 15
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra | Jean Yves Ossonce | Stephen Coombs
Massenet finished his Piano Concerto in 1902, when he was 60, so officially in his list of compositions, it comes...
Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 7/1997
Brahms Orchestral & Choral Works
Bernard Haitink | Boston Symphony Orchestra | Tanglewood Festival Chorus
Bernard Haitink is a sturdy Brahmsian with a keen sense of structure. His new version of the First Symphony is...
Reviewed in issue 6/1997
Dyens Concerto Métis; Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez
Alexandre Siranossian | Roland Dyens | Serenata Orchestra
Is this just one more recording of Concierto de Aranjuez? Well, rather more than that – it is a remarkable...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 2/2004
Liszt (A) Faust Symphony
If Gretchen's tender personification of The Eternal Feminine ultimately triumphs over the forces of evil, then I suppose one shouldn't...
Reviewed in issue 1/1995
CPE Bach/Vivaldi/Tartini Cello Concertos
Hugh Wolff | Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Of the many modern players who increasingly are performing the smaller-scale eighteenth-century concertos, remarkably few seem able to scale down...
Reviewed in issue 1/1994
Dvorák; Tchaikovsky Violin Concertos
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra | Jirí Belohlávek | Vladimir Ashkenazy
Strangely, the Dvorák and Tchaikovsky violin concertos – written within a year of each other – have rarely been coupled...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/2004
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