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Launching a high-end CD player may seem like a brave endeavour in what is increasingly...
Ennio Morricone attended the same high school as the director Sergio Leone, a handy link that stood them both in...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 12/2016
Now approaching 60, James MacMillan is surely the most recorded of contemporary British composers and this new Onyx disc couples...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2016
Jongen’s friend Eugène Ysaÿe pointed out that the Symphonie concertante might better be called a symphony for two orchestras, since...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2016
If I had heard these performances in concert I would doubtless have enjoyed them with few reservations. The 20-strong Australian...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2016
This centenary tribute to the Argentine composer Alfredo Ginastera is the brainchild of harpist Yolanda Kondonassis – an act of...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2016
Little of Giorgio Federico Ghedini’s orchestral music has appeared on disc, so Daniele Rustioni’s survey of four of his major...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2016
Appalachian Spring is most frequently heard in the 1945 concert suite for full orchestra, which omits around nine minutes of...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 12/2016
Dario Castello has in recent years turned into one of the stars of 17th-century instrumental music, a thoroughly deserved status...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2016
Bruckner’s Second Symphony is arguably the most problematic of the canon in terms of textual matters. The critical edition published...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 12/2016
All the post-war masters looked to Mahler for inspiration in their own ways. To Stockhausen he was a visionary, beyond...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2016
Launching a high-end CD player may seem like a brave endeavour in what is increasingly...
'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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