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Schreker Romantic Suite; Prelude to a Grand Opera

This CD underlines Schreker’s commitment to a style which came to seem increasingly conservative in the three decades which separate...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/2002

Purcell Complete Odes & Welcome Songs, Vol.5

You can imagine the reviewer's problem here. Record five of a set of eight that will contain all Purcell's odes...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 5/1992

Berio Orchestral Works

The Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (1972-73) is power-driven by a bloodthirsty sense of invention, leaving you to ponder...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 7/2009

Scriabin Symphonies, etc

These are the first issues of 1990s recordings at half the price of Muti's acclaimed Philadelphia set. What is more,...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/1995

Beethoven Violin Sonatas 2

After the first invigorating instalment of Ibragimova and Tiberghien’s Wigmore Hall Beethoven series (8/10), this sequel comes as no disappointment....

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 12/2010

Loewe Lieder and Balladen

Here we are at Volume 15 of this survey of Loewe’s songs and‚ despite often using the potentially repetitive form...

Reviewed in issue 4/2002

Brandenburg Concertos filmed in the Library at Klosters Wiblingen

Except for those carried away by the mere idea of pictures with their records not, after all, very revolutionary in...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1989

Schnittke Cello Concertos and Sonatas

Schnittke’s Cello Concerto No 1 was written in the months after his first devastating stroke in 1985 and gives a grim...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 2/2008

Clérambault Cantatas

Following their delightful programme of chamber cantatas by Clerambault for soprano voice (Naxos, 10/98), Les Solistes du Concert Spirituel perform...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1998

Nobokov Ode: Méditation sur la majesté de Dieu; Union Pacific

Once as much talked about as his writer cousin Vladimir‚ Nicolas Nabokov has long slipped into public forgetfulness. Yet his...

Reviewed in issue 10/2002

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