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D. Stoll Reflections on Vedic Scriptures

A Chinese Poet speaks Chinese. But what does he say? (rough paraphrase of Schoenberg). In light of recent letters to...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 10/1994

M-A. Charpentier Medée

When I reviewed the three-LP set of Charpentier's Medee last November, I had not heard the final commercial pressings and...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1985

Arthur Moreira Lima plays Piazolla

Here is music for those who delight in intricate and protracted seduction. Astor Piazzolla’s Tangos, brilliantly transcribed from bandoneon to...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/1999

Bach Goldberg Variations

Andreas Staier is clearly in love. Having walked out with Anthony Sidey’s copy of a giant 1734 Hass harpsichord in...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 6/2010

Elena Riu - Salsa Nueva

‘Vibrant salsa beats meet contemporary classical piano music,’ explains the cover, ‘commissioned and played by Elena Riu,’ the Venezuelan-born ‘pianist,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 8/2005

Dvorák Slavonic Dances Op 46 & 72

Performances of consummate wisdom and poise under a conductor at the peak of his powers in repertoire of which he...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 13/2005

Henze Boulevard Solitude

Henze's considerable operatic output has received scant attention on disc, so it is particularly good to welcome not one, but...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 12/1992

Rutter Feel The Spirit

Rutter’s arrangement of seven spirituals (eight if you include the surreptitious appearance of “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” in “Deep River”),...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 6/2010

Donizetti L'Elisir d'amore

This set was none too well received by Philip Hope-Wallace when it first appeared in 1959. Twenty years later, in...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1994

Fibich Chamber Music

Fibich’s chamber music is not usually rated as highly by his compatriots as are his operas or orchestral music, or...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 1/1999

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