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Review of JS BACH Une Cantate Imaginaire

JS BACH Une Cantate Imaginaire

Nathalie Stutzmann’s credentials as a Bach singer are well established, as genuine and unmistakable a contralto voice as we’ve heard...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 02/2013

Review of JS BACH Cantatas Volume 51

JS BACH Cantatas Volume 51

Works assembled for one-off occasions may not at first sound like the most gripping subject for the latest volume of...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue:

Review of JS BACH Ach süßer Trost!

JS BACH Ach süßer Trost!

Philippe Herreweghe has always meticulously hand-picked Bach cantatas (previously with both Virgin and Harmonia Mundi), resisting the completist route and...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 02/2013

Review of RACHMANINOV All-Night Vigil

RACHMANINOV All-Night Vigil

In a 1939 interview, Rachmaninov confessed that stylistically he ‘felt like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien. I...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 02/2013

Review of New Music Show

New Music Show

Following releases on Signum, the London Sinfonietta continues its in-house label with a disc of recent works – five of...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 02/2013

Review of American Mavericks

American Mavericks

I doubt whether Lou Harrison, Henry Cowell and Edgard Varèse thought of themselves as ‘maverick’ any more than bananas taste...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 02/2013

Review of WEINBERG Symphony No 19 'Bright May'. The Banners of Peace

WEINBERG Symphony No 19 'Bright May'. The Banners of Peace

Naxos is boldly stepping into the breach vacated by Chandos to give us the few remaining Weinberg symphonies yet to...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2013

Review of TURNAGE Orchestral Works Vol 3

TURNAGE Orchestral Works Vol 3

The LPO label’s third disc of Mark-Anthony Turnage (the orchestra’s Composer in Residence from 2005 to 2010) may have arrived...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 02/2013

Review of TELEMANN Complete Violin Concertos Volume 5

TELEMANN Complete Violin Concertos Volume 5

For the fifth volume of Telemann’s violin concertos, Elizabeth Wallfisch uses a different orchestra from the one on Vol 4...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 02/2013

Review of STRAVINSKY The Firebird. The Rite of Spring

STRAVINSKY The Firebird. The Rite of Spring

First a word about Naïve’s superlative presentation, a hard-covered story-book with attractive fantastical illustrations that resemble lino cuts and with...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2013

 

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