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The Other Mary is Mary Magdalene. We may know her as the (supposedly) reformed prostitute who washed Jesus’s feet with...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2014
This disc may sound suspiciously like a gimmick by which to group together some hard-to-place niche repertoire but Christophe Pantillon’s...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 04/2014
Back in 1976, Helmut Lachenmann composed his Accanto – a typically subversive and uncompromising critique of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto and...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 04/2014
This lovingly chosen recital – striking in both choice and performance – celebrates dance and song, key aspects of music...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 04/2014
Leon McCawley launches his all Schumann disc in high spirits with Faschingsschwank aus Wien. It’s the faster movements that come...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2014
Oh dear. Listening to the opening of the C minor Impromptu, you do wish that Rudolf Buchbinder would leave it...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 04/2014
Pairing Ravel and Scriabin is an intriguing idea – two composers with their own unique harmonic language (the Scriabin works...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2014
This disc, devoted to Rachmaninov, remembers Colin Horsley, a pianist of the utmost distinction. A New Zealander by birth, he...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 04/2014
Just one concerto, plus the wonderful Paganini Variations for two pianos and the hour’s worth of solo pieces gathered on...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2014
Petr Eben’s cycle Job is without question one of the outstanding organ masterpieces of the 20th century. While the recording...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 04/2014
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'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
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Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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