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Britten War Requiem

Every recorded performance of Britten’s War Requiem has drawn the best from its interpreters – no wonder, considering the greatness...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1998

Rimsky-Korsakov The Legend of the Invisble City of Kitezh

Rimsky-Korsakov's pen-ultimate opera was never popular at home in Soviet times, even with a text rewritten for Communist purposes, partly...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1999

Schnabel Piano Works

Composer-performers tend to programme their own music at the first opportunity, but Artur Schnabel was different. He felt that every...

Reviewed in issue 8/1996

Lauritz Melchior & Albert Coates

It is good to see the Heldentenor of the century remembered in his centenary year, having said which I fear...

Reviewed in issue 7/1990

Medtner Piano Works, Volume 7

There are few stranger, more recondite figures in the entire history of music than Nikolai Medtner. Recently he has been...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Dennis O'Neill Sings

Delight, disappointment, dismay: barometrical readings in brief. The delight followed discovery of the recital's existence, for Dennis O'Neill is not...

Reviewed in issue 11/1987

Rzewski Chamber Works

Churning rhythm and seemingly minimalist, rigorously-controlled melodic patterns characterise three of Frederic Rzewski’s early works presented by the audacious and...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 8/2003

Benjamin Palimpsests

‘Palimpsest’ is a useful term for the kind of contemporary composition that superimposes disparate layers of material and explores their...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 1/2005

Elgar-Payne Symphony 3

How thrillingly urgent Elgar's unforgettably gaunt introductory bars sound here - a magnificent launch-pad for an interpretation of unswerving dedication,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/2000

Violin and Piano Works

This is a very impressive-sounding recording – vivid and resonant, with a natural balance between the two instruments – and...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 7/1996

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