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Kostitsyn American Requiem

Feelings will run high on this one. Evgeni Kostitsyn’s 9/11 piece layers the Latin Requiem texts with proclamations by George...

Reviewed by Arved Ashby in issue: 13/2003

Dimitri Mitropoulos

Bach Collegium Japan adds an 11th volume to its excellent series of Bach's sacred cantatas. The musical strengths of the...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/2000

Webern The School of Vienna Volume 3

This is a marvellous disc—by no means the only marvellous one the Arditti Quartet have produced in recent years, but...

Reviewed in issue 12/1991

Myaskovsky Symphonic Works

Even if you invested in Warner’s boxed Myaskovsky edition, a surprise Award-winner last year, there are grounds for exploring these...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 5/2010

Caplet; Ibert; Salzedo Harp Works

I have a confession to make. When my son was small, he often had trouble falling asleep at night. My...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 5/2009

The Queen's Delight-17th Century English Ballads

Various buckets have been dipped into the deep well of seventeenth-century English ballads and dances but few have come up...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 7/1997

Rachmaninov (The) Miserly Knight

Like The Merchant of Venice, The Miserly Knight is nothing if not problematic. It’s a setting of Pushkin, whose faux-medieval...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 3/2005

Locatelli L'Arte del Violino, Op 3

When Locatelli performed his concertos on tour in the 1720s, he probably played two at most on any given occasion....

Reviewed in issue 1/1995

Paisiello Don Chisciotte

Don Chisciotte is a fast­moving comic opera‚ loosely based on Cervantes’ international best­seller‚ to a libretto by Giovanni Battista Lorenzi‚...

Reviewed in issue 3/2002

Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Vol 2

No more imperious or mesmeric pianist has ever existed than Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. His psychological complexity is evident at every...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2000

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