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Roman Mints - Game Over

Violin and electronics has become a much favoured medium: Pierre Boulez’s magisterial Anthèmes II comes to mind but, as these...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 2/2006

Sessions Chamber Works

Sessions is slowly making headway—the first five symphonies are available in the British catalogue now and I welcomed, with some...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 2/1995

Mahler Symphony No 2

Till now I had thought of St Louis only as the birthplace of T. S. Eliot, but this notably well...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/1985

Grieg Orchestral works

Apart from the ever-popular Piano Concerto there seems little room in today's concert programmes for Grieg's gently nostalgic, beautifully crafted...

Reviewed in issue 1/1987

Weinberger Schwanda the Bagpiper

The original 1981 version of Svanda (or Schwanda, I suppose, since it is sung here in German) comes up as...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/1989

Beethoven; Ravel String Quartets

The principal value of this release is that it chronicles the performing style of a gifted Canadian string quartet on...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 3/2001

Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

Chopin and Mussorgsky make odd bedfellows but Marilyn Frascone’s disc brings them into some form of alliance. Indeed, it is...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 13/2008

Beethoven: Complete Symphonies, etc

First, some practical points. Such is the dramatic improvement in modern technology over the past ten years that this digitally...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 2/1986

Brahms: Chamber Works

In the musical climate of today it is hard to believe the upheaval and opposition aroused in the mid-1930s by...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 6/1991

Rameau (Les) Paladins

Les paladins was composed towards the end of Rameau’s life. It was not a success: premiered at the Paris Opéra...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 2/2011

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