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Patterson Hell's Angels; Mass of the Sea

Hell’s Angels is the kind of work all nice sopranos, altos, tenors and basses will piously hope their choral society...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/2003

Sangam - Michael Nyman meets Indian Masters

Think Alice Coltrane or John McLaughlin’s Mahavishnu Orchestra and you’ll get something of the flavour of this meeting between Britain’s...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 4/2003

Elly Ameling sings Handel

This is a second reissue, and quite right too: it should never be out of the catalogue for long. Both...

Reviewed in issue 4/1985

Berlin Philharmonic European Concert

The durability of recent BPO “Europa” concerts (played annually on May 1) has been compromised by dodgy acoustics – a...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2009

Yuja Wang - Sonatas and Etudes

After shenanigans involving several supreme if problematic pianists (problematic in the sense that they chose to record only occasionally), DG...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/2009

Schoenberg Gurrelieder

This performance was extremely well received when it first appeared (it won a Gramophone Award)‚ and its merits are many...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 10/2001

Carter; MacDowell; Rozsa American Piano Sonatas

This CD is emblazoned with an ecstatic quote from Elliott Carter after he heard Seivewright play his Sonata (1946) at...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 6/2009

Brahms Works for Chorus and Orchestra

The songs of Destiny and of Triumph (Op 54 and 55) might be supposed to go naturally together and yet...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 6/2004

Balakirev Piano Works

Balakirev’s extensive piano output has understandably been dominated by Islamey, one of the quintessential examples of romantic colour and virtuosity....

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 8/1999

D'Indy Symphony on a French Mountain Air; Saint-Saens Symphony No 2

Two works of ripe Romantic élan here frame a relatively early and seldom-performed symphony by Saint-Saëns, all of them played...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2011

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