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Rodrigo Complete Orchestral Works , Vol 6

The Concierto para una fiesta was commissioned by a wealthy Texan, as a ‘coming-out-party’ present for his daughters, admirers of...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 7/2003

Chopin Sonata No 2

No pianist played closer to the edge than Vladimir Horowitz. And here, in this invaluable reissue of performances dating from...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2008

Machaut Mercy ou Mort

The Ferrara Ensemble offers here a very well conceived cycle of chansons and motets d’amour‚ engagingly reflected upon in Jacques...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

Elliot Carter - (A) Labyrinth of Time

Music as a simultaneity of perspectives has long been central to the thinking of Elliott Carter, making him an ideal...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 1/2007

Puccini Madame Butterfly

This was La Scala’s Japanese production. Two of the principals, the designers of sets, costumes and lighting and the producer...

Reviewed in issue 5/2001

Elliott Carter: Vocal Works

The contents of these discs are, in essence complementary. Erato score with the first recordings of Carter's two most recent...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/1990

Byrd Songs

The latest release from the award-winning viol consort Phantasm sees them turning to the consort song repertory for the first...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2000

Bach: Wohltemperierte Klavier

Gieseking in Bach rather than Debussy, Ravel or Mozart, in whose music his reputation stands high? But he did make...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1990

Melancolia - Tears of the Soul

The leading named figure of early 15th-century German song, Oswald von Wolkenstein, is absent from this anthology, which focuses instead...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2000

Serebrier Erotica

Serebrier here makes his first appearance in The Classical Catalogue wearing his composer's hat. Perhaps one should better say 'hats'—conductors...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 5/1992

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