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Weill Street Scene

Street Scene is the most ambitious product of Weill's American years, and the work he reckoned the fulfilment of his...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 8/1991

Bach Concerto Transcriptions

Rather to my surprise, when digital transfers usually bring out idiosyncrasies of recording the more distractingly, this CD leaves me...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1985

Bach Goldberg Variations

The booklet-notes accompanying Nick van Bloss’s Goldberg Variations contain an interview in which the pianist cites his youthful impressions of...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 5/2011

Takemitsu Garden Rain

These are bountiful times for Takemitsu’s admirers. For those with bottomless pockets or unlimited overdraft facilities, endless shelf-space and an...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 8/2005

Khachaturian Cello Concerto; Concerto-Rhapsody

Khachaturian’s 1946 Cello Concerto has never been as popular as the ones for piano or violin. It certainly got off...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 8/2010

Schmidt String Quartets Nos 1 & 2

Franz Schmidt’s marvellous First Quartet (1925) is a substantial, consummately argued and exquisitely deft achievement which, like its even more...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/1998

Zani Concerti da Chiesa, Op.II.

Andrea Zani was born in 1696 and worked for a time in Vienna. His Op. 2 (1729) consists of six...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1999

Sacred Voices - Music of the Renaissance

A splendid recording debut for The New Company, a professional chamber choir of 12, directed by Harry Bicket, which is...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/1999

Come un'ombra di luna

If it is surprising that a female vocal ensemble specialising in contemporary music did not come about until 1986, there’s...

Reviewed in issue 6/2001

Enescu String Quartets

A curiosity in Enescu's output is the way that he sometimes bracketed under the same opus number works of the...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 6/1992

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