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MacMillan The Berserking

Today’s New Music scene is said to be pluralistic: everything is permitted; style is no longer a moral issue. But...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 7/1996

Gubaidulina Sieben Worte; Zehn Präludien; De Profundis

Recordings of Sofia Gubaidulina’s music differ markedly as to presentation. Elsbeth Moser and Boris Pergamenschikov interpret Seven Last Words‚ meditations...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 5/2002

Rameau Naïs

It is only a short while since I reviewed a suite of dances from Rameau's opera, Nais. Now, hard on...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1995

Shostakovich Symphonies Nos 2 and 5

Place Eliahu Inbal's soft-grained account of the Fifth Symphony beside Kurt Sanderling's epic interpretation on Berlin Classics Eterna and its...

Reviewed in issue 8/1994

Purcell: Theatre Music Volume 8

This enchanting record consists of songs and duets from Restoration plays, almost all of them on various aspects of love....

Reviewed in issue 9/1985

On This Island

English song has been well looked after recently by artists and record companies, and it could be that readers who...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Josquin des Prez and Friends

When Adrian Willaert claimed authorship of a piece that the Papal choir thought was by the great Josquin they promptly...

Reviewed in issue 1/2002

Liszt Orchestral & Piano Works

Illicit love and the torments of hell, or to be more specific, Dante's Divine Comedy in two reincarnations: one for...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/1994

English Organ Music

Chesterfield Parish Church's claim to fame is its crooked spire, still remembered with affection by those viewers old enough to...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 3/1993

Villa-Lobos Piano Works, Vol 4

A wealth of South American music remains unrecorded and so it is good that Naxos has commenced a long-overdue piano...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/1999

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