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Reich Music for 18 Musicians

This new release from Ensemble Modern is the latest of a number of single composer ‘portraits’ recorded in co-production with...

Reviewed in issue 6/1999

Classical Bassoon Concertos

These five concertante works for bassoon make up a delightful and generous collection. Since 1974 Laurence Perkins has been principal...

Reviewed in issue 5/2002

Sound the Trumpet

The distinctive quality of English trumpet writing of the late seventeenth century is most gloriously evident in Purcell’s music for...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 7/1996

Zimmermann (Un) petit rien; (Das) Gelb und das Grün; Metamorphose

This is the second CD in Wergo’s Zimmermann edition to reach me. Like the first (2/03) it concentrates on works...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/2005

Sperger String Symphonies

Few, I suspect, will have heard of the latest composer to feature in Naxos’s 18th-century symphony series; Johannes Sperger was...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

The Art of Hina Spani

In July 1958 Desmond Shawe-Taylor took time off from his normal duties as writer of the ''Quarterly Retrospect'' and reported...

Reviewed in issue 11/1987

Busoni Piano Works after Bach

The story goes that Busoni’s early arrangements of Bach – venturing far beyond mere transcription – became so popular that...

Reviewed by Arved Ashby in issue: 7/2005

Parry Chamber Works

Nobody has ever had a good word to say for Parry's chamber music; even he left three of his six...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 11/1985

Kiri sings Gershwin

On paper the Te Kanawa issue has everything. Not that the title ''Kiri Sings Gershwin'' and the stylish gatefold sleeve...

Reviewed by rhughes in issue: 10/1987

Schnittke Requiem/Piano Concerto

Tempering passion and exuberance with above-average control, Schnittke’s Concerto for piano and strings of 1979 has worn better than most...

Reviewed in issue 2/1998

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