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Wagner The Ring - orchestral highlights

Not so long ago I was reviewing an impressive studio recording from Chesky (2/98), conducted by Charles Gerhardt, of much...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/1998

Alwyn Movements for Piano etc

Anyone who finds Prokofiev, Bartok or Stravinsky’s piano music insufferably rude may value Alwyn’s object lessons in refined behaviour. Others...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2000

(The) Eight Seasons

It is over a decade now since Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica introduced us to this unusual interleaving of works,...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 7/2011

Schnittke Chamber Music, Volume 1

Reviewing the BIS disc listed above, which included Schnittke's String Trio, DJF declared: ''there will surely be a finer recording...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/1994

Toby Twining Shaman

American composer Toby Twining (b. 1958) studied composition with Ben Johnson at the University of Illinois and piano with Helen...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 2/1995

Britten War Requiem

It is hard to realize that Benjamin Britten's authoritative reading on Decca—a set which became a classical best-seller on both...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/1983

Brahms/Stenhammer Serenades

It was a lovely idea to pair these two delightful works, though I suspect that most collectors who fancy Brahms's...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 1/2000

Bernstein West Side Story - 50th Anniversary Recording

UCJ makes real capital of the fact that this “50th Anniversary Recording” of perhaps the greatest score ever written for...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 9/2007

Liszt Piano Works, Vol. 5

Volume 5 of Naxos’s survey of Liszt’s piano music offers an introductory selection of his masterly transcriptions of Schubert songs....

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 6/1998

Sciarriino Luci mie traditrici

The death of Berio leaves Salvatore Sciarrino (b1947) the sole representative of the 20th-century Italian avant-garde still active on the...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/2004

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