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Haydn Symphonies Nos. 102 and 103
Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Claudio Abbado
Collectors of previous issues in Abbado’s Haydn series with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe will have a fair idea of...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/1996
GUNNING Flute Concertino. Clarinet Concerto. Guitar Concerto
The reissue of Christopher Gunning’s Discovery releases on the Signum label continues with a trio of concertos to which Edward...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2022
KORNGOLD Chamber Music
Alasdair Beatson | Eusebius Quartet
While Korngold’s 21st-century rehabilitation as a serious composer seems well and truly complete, it’s fair to say that his chamber...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2021
Pergolesi Stabat mater
Claudio Abbado | London Symphony Orchestra | Lucia Valentini-Terrani | Margaret Marshall
I heard Abbado's version first and was immediately won over to a work I've had some reservations about. My memories...
Reviewed in issue 4/1985
HÖLSZKY On the Other Side. Formicarium
Adriana Hölszky, born in Bucharest in 1953, was a pupil of S¸tefan Niculescu, the Romanian composer renowned for strips of...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2015
MORRIS Kaleidoscope
The music of Craig Madden Morris (b1945 in New York; not to be confused with the Grammy-nominated trumpeter, b1968 in...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2023
Mendelssohn Overtures
Claudio Abbado | London Symphony Orchestra
Claudio Abbado has shown himself to be a sympathetic conductor of Mendelssohn's music since his earliest days in the recording...
Reviewed in issue 5/1988
MacMillan Seven Last Words From The Cross
Commissioned by the BBC in 1993 and first broadcast on television during Easter week of the following year, Seven Last...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/2009
MacMillan Tenebrae
James MacMillan’s Strathclyde Motets are aimed at “good church choirs or good amateur choirs”, and the seven recorded here hit...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 1/2008
MacMillan The Berserking
James MacMillan | Markus Stenz | Peter Donohoe | Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Today’s New Music scene is said to be pluralistic: everything is permitted; style is no longer a moral issue. But...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 7/1996
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