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Bartók Bluebeard's Castle

You could say that Bartók’s only foray into the world of opera is best enjoyed in the extended theatre of...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 7/2008

Mouth Music

The best 'experimental' composer are those whose experiments are essentially pre-compositional—as when Trevor Wishart, before composing Anticredos, spent four years...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/1983

Crye - English Viol Music

When devoting this CD to seventeenth-century English melancholic music, Concordia were right to foresee the need to offer some sort...

Reviewed in issue 12/1997

Fortner Bluthochzeit (Günther Wand Edition, Vol 12)

Last year was the centenary of Wolfgang Fortner’s birth, but if there were any events marking this, I missed them....

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/2008

Rangström Chamber Works

The Swedish composer Ture Rangstrom had an enviable gift for melody, and his winning lyricism is evident in most of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 4/2000

Enescu; Ravel Chamber Works

A compelling programme based principally around the figure of Georges Enescu, both as composer and as a performing phenomenon, the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 2/2004

Horowitz Piano Roll Recordings

By the time Vladimir Horowitz died, he had become the Grand Old Man of Golden-Age pianism. But one easily forgets...

Reviewed in issue 7/1993

Ives: Orchestral Works

Ives eventually stopped calling his orchestral set Holidays a 'symphony' because he was—and I quote—''tired of hearing the lily boys...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/1988

Berkeley; Britten; Wood Horn Trios

Few horn players produce such a luscious sound as David Pyatt, beautifully caught here in a clear, well-balanced recording. It...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2000

Liszt (A) Faust Symphony

There are at least two ways of assessing this performance. First as a late, gnarled statement, a little unkempt but...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 13/2003

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