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Seventeenth-Century German Works
Alastair Ross | His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts | Richard Wistreich
This is a carefully-planned and sensitively performed selection of little-known pieces by Heinrich Schutz and his contemporaries; it also includes...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 9/1987
Barber Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op 24; Toccata Festiva, Op 24
Karina Gauvin | Marin Alsop | Royal Scottish National Orchestra | Thomas Trotter
Karina Gauvin and Marin Alsop take a nostalgic view of Knoxville: Summer of 1915. Theirs is clearly an adult’s bittersweet...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 6/2004
R. Strauss: Orchestral & Vocal Works
Felicity Lott | Neeme Järvi | Royal Scottish National Orchestra
The acoustic of the Caird Hall, Dundee, where Jarvi's series of the Strauss tone-poems is being recorded, is resonant almost...
Reviewed in issue 3/1988
Rameau Harpsichord Works
Martial Morand | Olivier Baumont
Olivier Baumont is a French musician in his late twenties and you would be wiser to assess his ability from...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 5/1990
Rorem Santa Fe Songs; Auden Songs
Ned Rorem is an all-round composer with significant contributions in every medium. The years around his 80th birthday have brought...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 11/2006
Turnage Scorched
Even when writing for the rarefied atmosphere of the concert hall, Mark-Anthony Turnage’s music is strongly coloured by his love...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 2/2004
Franck & Chausson Symphonies
Chalk and cheese. D'Avalos and Flor take quite different attitudes to the problems of the first movement of the Franck...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/1990
Martinu Ariane
Martinu's Ariane, comes from the last year of his life. It was written in the brief period of a month...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 12/1992
Russian piano music
Unlike Ashkenazy (Decca), who tells us he sees Mussorgsky's pictures in orchestral terms, Geoffrey Saba clearly perceives them primarily as...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/1986
Mendelssohn/Schubert Piano Trios
Alfred Cortot | Jacques Thibaud | Pablo Casals
Tully Potter’s discerning introductory note reminds us that it was in Paris‚ in their later twenties‚ that these three legendary...
Reviewed in issue 9/2002
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