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CHILCOTT Requiem
This disc of premiere recordings of music by one of the most popular British choral composers is dominated by the...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 06/2012
BRITTEN Songs and Proverbs of William Blake
‘This music has the power to connect the avant-garde with the lost paradise of tonality,’ said Robin Holloway once about...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2012
BRITTEN Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings FINZI Dies Natalis
It has almost become a rite of passage for English tenors to record Britten’s orchestral song-cycles. Mark Padmore has held...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 06/2012
TCHAIKOVSKY; MENDELSSOHN Violin Concertos
Ray Chen, Gramophone’s One to Watch in February 2011, played these concertos at the Menuhin Competition in 2008 (Mendelssohn) and...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 06/2012
HANDEL Saul
Saul is one of Handel’s most distinctive and greatest masterpieces. Composed only a few years before he ceased writing Italian...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2012
DEBUSSY. SZYMANOWSKI Piano Works
I thought this was going to be a disc of two halves. In fact, it is more of a continuous...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2012
Music From The Machine Age
There’s something uniquely exciting about hearing a keen young orchestra devouring difficult but exciting music whole, which is precisely what...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2012
The Galileo Project
New and imaginative ways of programming Baroque repertoire that was never intended for the modern concert or CD formats are...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2012
Frederick the Great: Music for the Berlin Court
The booklet-notes for this release cite the term ‘Berlin Classicism’ for the school of talented composers working at the court...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2012
Arcadia Lost: Music of Vaughan Williams & Britten
A concept album which may or may not suit the dedicated collector but is certainly worth trying. Melba’s packaging includes...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2012
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Review - Christoph von Dohnányi in Cleveland
Jed Distler hails a desirable box-set documenting the maestro’s 18-year tenure in Ohio
Review - Eloquence’s Piano Library
Jeremy Nicholas browses through two collections of keyboard treasures
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Review - Sergei Rachmaninoff: In His Own Words (Edited by Geoffrey Norris)
‘This is an altogether absorbing volume, as valuable and enlightening as it is original and...
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This flagship player eschews the technology of the company’s other models for a clean sheet...
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