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Nyman Noises, Sounds and Sweet Airs

Nymanites will rejoice. The pulse, the raunchy textures and the restless alternation of metre (either between 'numbers' or within them)...

Reviewed in issue 4/1995

Purcell - Love Songs

This is a maddening disc, because it is so good and yet could have been so much better. It’s heartening...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 10/2010

Brahms Piano Concertos, etc

Gerard Oppitz is ranked as the foremost German pianist of his generation. Having just turned 40, he is no longer...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 7/1994

Verdi Aida

This 1981 San Francisco Aida, a fairly routine production, marked the débuts of Pavarotti as Radames and Price in the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/2003

Monteverdi Vespers

Philippe Herreweghe conducts a spacious and flexible reading of Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers. It is also relatively gentle and soft-edged by...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 2/1988

Debussy Solo Piano Works, Vol 1

If asked to encapsulate Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s highly anticipated Debussy Préludes in two words or less, I’d say “con amore”. Given...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 7/2007

Komitas; Mansurian Works for Viola and Percussion

When a small country has been subject to occupation by more powerful states over a long period of time, its...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 10/2003

Isaac Stern plays Mozart, Beethoven and Haydn

The very start of Mozart’s Serenata notturna is disconcerting, with a very hefty-sounding chamber orchestra set against delicate-sounding soloists, not...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1999

Sacred Choral Works

Tercentenary tributes to Domenico Scarlatti seem pretty scarce at the moment so a recording of his ten-part Stabat mater with...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1985

Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade & Capriccio espagnol

As we discovered with the Kondrashin/Philips version, the pausefulness of Scheherezade at the very start and at many other points...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1984

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