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Fauré Piano Quintets No.1 and 2

Shortly after an outstanding release of the Piano Quintets from Naxos (9/09) comes another, superfine in sound and balance, from...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/2010

Roussel Bacchus et Ariane, etc.

The problem with Roussel is that he is at least as un-French as he is French. An audience vaguely expecting...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1986

Reich: Various Works

These pioneer recordings have been unobtainable for several years, and they make a welcome addition to the CD catalogue. No...

Reviewed in issue 9/1989

Susan Graham - Poèmes de l' Amour

It’s a brave, or foolhardy, composer who sets about re-orchestrating Debussy. Yet that is what John Adams has done, in...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 6/2005

Henze: String Quartets

The Arditti Quartet have a voracious appetite for twentieth-century music—the more complex and challenging the better. Alongside Carter or Ferneyhough,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/1990

Rózsa Orchestral Works, Vol 1

Rózsa’s list of concert works (those bearing opus numbers) amounts to under half his 95 film scores. Although Rózsa maintained...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2008

Beethoven Piano Sonatas

Beethoven was not responsible for the popular subtitle of his C sharp minor Sonata, and to suggest that a pianist...

Reviewed in issue 4/1992

Bach 6 Suites for Cello, BWV1007-12

Bach’s instrumental music seems happily responsive to the evolving ideas of single interpreters: witness Wolfgang Rubsam, who significantly revised his...

Reviewed in issue 6/1998

John Tavener The Whale

Ageing hippies will recall John Tavener's The Whale with fond affection. I never owned the 1970 LP myself, but knew...

Reviewed in issue 6/1993

Les Premières Polyphonies Françaises

One of musicology’s most exciting achievements in recent years is the transcription of the earliest polyphony. The oldest manuscripts were...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 12/1996

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