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Still Miscellaneous Works

I gave an enthusiastic welcome to Neeme Jarvi's performance, with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, of Still's Afro-American Symphony coupled with...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 11/1993

Franck Organ Works Vol. II

It was wise to issue Jennifer Bate's Beauvais performances of Franck on CD. Rich and beautiful though the LP version...

Reviewed in issue 4/1985

Schoenberg Songs

These performances were originally recorded for BBC Radio 3’s regular and imaginative series, Voices, and Black Box promises further issues...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 1/2003

Ave Maria

This programme of devotional music about the Blessed Virgin drawn from South German, Habsburg and Italian courts is an unusual...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 4/2009

Jørgensen Confrontations

‘One of the first 12-tone composers in Denmark’, is how the booklet describes Jorgensen (b 1912), but it goes on...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/2000

Tallis Missa Salve intemerata

In recent years we have become increasingly used to hearing English cathedral music of the 16th century performed by high-octane...

Reviewed in issue 6/2001

Spectrum 3 - 25 Contemporary Works from Around The Globe

As with her earlier NMC anthology (10/99)‚ these 25 pieces were all commissioned by Thalia Myers and the Associated Board...

Reviewed in issue 9/2001

Britten; Debussy; Prokofiev Cello Sonatas

Under the title ‘Modern Milestones’, Claudio Bohórquez brings together three 20th-century cello sonatas that may have little relation one with...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/2006

Chausson; Hubay; Röntgen Works for Violin and Orchestra

Julius Röntgen (1855-1932), friend of Brahms and Grieg and greatly admired by Tovey, is little known today. This premiere recording...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 1/2006

Handel Rodelinda

I have now seen and heard this staging three times, once in the theatre, once on television, now in the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1999

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