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New Year's Day Concert 2002

It is a special New Year’s concert in the Vienna Musikvereinsaal: on the organ pipes behind the orchestra‚ a...

Reviewed in issue 5/2002

Kernis Air/Coloured Field/Musica Celestis

Aaron Jay Kernis (b 1960) has recently been receiving wide attention and frequent performances in North America. His music is...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Malcolm Frager plays Chopin

The composer we meet here is certainly no fragile, invalid dreamer. Malcolm Frager is a bold Chopin player with strong...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1991

Erik Chisholm - Piano Music

Influenced by Bartok, the Scottish composer Erik Chisholm (1904-65) drew inspiration from his national folk music. This enterprising if uneven...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 12/1998

MacMilian Symphony No 3

Hard on the heels of Universal Classics’ mid-price reissue of Jerzy Maksymiuk’s Gramophone Award-winning first recording of The Confession of...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 5/2005

Donizetti (L') Elisir d'amore

The elixir works its magic. The audience, which rather like the show itself takes time to warm up, by the...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/2010

Cooke Violin Sonata No 2; Viola Sonata; Cello Sonata No 2

Arnold Cooke, who died last year, has not yet received his due. This enterprising triptych of world premiere recordings courtesy...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/2006

(The) A-Z of Mozart Opera

This is one of the most impressive pieces of programming I have experienced in a long time. Not only do...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 12/2007

Holst Orchestral Works

Teldec's welcome British Line series continues with this intelligent, at times mightily impressive account of The Planets. About Tony Faulkner's...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/1994

Mantoue Lamentations of Jeremiah

I remember hearing with wonderment the arching theme of a Lamentations tone, sung by a Yemenite cantor newly arrived in...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 6/2004

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