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MacMillan Seven Last Words From The Cross

Commissioned by the BBC in 1993 and first broadcast on television during Easter week of the following year, Seven Last...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/2009

Wilson, I Towards the Far Country

As the disc of his Second and Third Piano Trios (Timbre) indicated, Ian Wilson is a composer of imaginative resource...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 2/2001

Bach Secular Cantatas

The four secular cantatas included in this two-disc set were first issued on two separate LPs in 1968. Then they...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1990

Charpentier; Lebègue; Nivers Music for the Virgin Mary

Although a shade late for Charpentier’s tercentenary celebrations, this recording is the culmination of two years of preparation by Concerto...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2006

Marcello Arianna

Benedetto Marcello’s Arianna was composed as part of an entertainment held in honour of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni in the Academia...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 11/2000

Lalo Namouna-Ballet Music

There is no complete recording available of Lalo's ballet, which dates from 1882, and which Debussy admired, but David Robertson...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/1994

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Early Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon

If some virgin ear drawn to inspired singing were to ask why that protean artist Fischer-Dieskau was considered such a...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/2005

Rebel Orchestral Works

Jean-Fery Rebel was a contemporary of Couperin, Campra, Marais and Monteclair and was among those composers who lent real distinction...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1993

Berio; Boulez; Webern Saxophone Chamber Works

Pierre Boulez and Luciano Berio enjoyed a close working association from their early years in the often fractious post-war avant-garde,...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 7/2008

Bartók Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2

The strongest aspect of these performances is Gyorgy Pauk's supremely idiomatic playing. He may not have the virtuosity of Mullova...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 1/2000

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