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Yun Symphony No 5
Pomeranian Philharmonic Orchestra | Richard Salter | Takao Ukigaya
Can any twentieth-century composer claim a more active political engagement than Isang Yun? He was involved in the Korean resistance...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/1994
JS BACH St Matthew Passion
Here is a recording drawn from performances in the Herkulessaal in Munich, where Karl Richter recorded his versions in 1958...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2014
Bach Well Tempered Clavier I
How do you like your Bach? It really is down to a question of taste because no composer is more...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 6/2000
Berg Vocal Works
A single CD containing all the songs that Berg saw fit to publish would make a satisfying and fascinating collection,...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/1993
Muffat Componimenti musicali
If there are moments among Muffat’s Componimenti musicali when the music sounds unexpectedly familiar, it may be because Handel took...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2009
Britten War Requiem
After more than 40 years, this unique work has lost none of its power to inspire its performers and listeners...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/2006
MOZART Lucio Silla
Premiered in Milan on December 26, 1772, Mozart’s second theatrical triumph is opera at its most imposingly seria. As one...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2013
R. Strauss Lieder
Barbara Bonney | Malcolm Martineau
There seems something a shade contrary about the choice of repertory here. Strauss, according to his biographer Norman Del Mar,...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1999
Mahler Symphony No 2
One of the things that Eschenbach does very well is to create space in and around the music he conducts....
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 8/2009
Reimann Medea
Michael Boder | Vienna State Opera Orchestra
A century after Richard Strauss’s Elektra crafted the definitive conjunction between musical modernism and ancient Greek drama, Aribert Reimann has...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 5/2011
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