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Xenakis Miscellaneous Works

I know of no tougher proposition in contemporary music than a programme of unrelieved Xenakis. Even the insert-note writer speaks...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/1993

Ledger, P Requiem

My familiarity with Philip Ledger’s miniature choral pieces was almost exclusively forged during that numinous period of an hour and...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 3/2010

Dvorák Bagatelles; Piano Quintet Op 81

Recorded in warm, full sound, pianist Frank Braley leads an often fiery and impulsive account of Dvorák’s masterly Piano Quintet...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2007

Beethoven Diabelli Variations

Who among us would claim to have fathomed all the depths of the Diabelli Variations? The work has rightly been...

Reviewed in issue 12/1988

The Great Italian Arias

The booklet promises us a ''synthesis of baritone arias'' from Italian opera, which in fact turns out to be far...

Reviewed in issue 8/1993

Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade; Capriccio espagnol

The weighty brass at the start promises more than is delivered in this serviceable but only intermittently inspired Rimsky issue....

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/1999

Bruckner Symphony No 2

Of all Bruckner's symphonies, the Second is still perhaps the least well known. This is no reflection on its intrinsic...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1994

Beethoven Symphony No 9

By a happy chance, the completion of David Zinman’s Arte Nova cycle coincides with the publication in miniature score of...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/1999

Beach/R. Clarke Chamber Works

Rebecca Clarke's beautiful Viola Sonata and her remarkable Piano Trio are deservedly becoming almost repertory pieces these days, but I...

Reviewed in issue 10/1995

Corcoran Mad Sweeney

Hard on the heels of Marco Polo's issue of symphonies by Frank Corcoran - reviewed above - comes another disc...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 3/2000

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