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George Dyson: Choral music

One of the major pleasures of the past few years for aficionados of British music has been the discovery that...

Reviewed in issue 7/1990

Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet; Francesca da Rimini

The firm, clear sound of the CD, most truthfully balanced, serves to emphasize the feeling that the performances lack Tchaikovskian...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1985

Blacher Orchestral Works

I am almost convinced that if you had telephoned Boris Blacher, whistled a couple of notes and asked him to...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1998

Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2

Brahms's Second is very much a symphonic concerto which can be dominated in performance either by the conductor or the...

Reviewed in issue 8/1990

Baroque Music for Trumpets

This recording represents a tour de force on the part of all concerned, so much so that the entire text...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 6/1988

Brazilian Piano Music

Instead of claiming—in an effort to connect these two composers—that Ernesto Nazareth and Darius Milhaud were ''almost contemporaries'' (Milhaud was...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1993

Gabriela Montero - Bach & Beyond

In the booklet interview accompanying this release devoted to improvisations based on themes by JS Bach, pianist Gabriela Montero contrasts...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 9/2006

Andriessen Rosa: The Death of a Composer

Rosa: The Death of a Composer, or ‘A Horse Drama’, gives us blood on the stable floor, dried, ominous and...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 2/2001

Jia Zhong - Colours of China

Despite appearances, ‘Couleurs de Chine’ sounds only mildly ‘exotic’. I think this is more a consequence of the infiltration ofWestern...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 6/2003

Mauricio Kagel 8

If your immediate response to Kagel’s title is to suspect an elaborate joke, study of his text, with lines like...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/1996

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