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Janacek String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2

There are plenty of records coupling Janá¶ek’s two string quartets‚ in various versions of the score. He changed his mind...

Reviewed in issue 11/2001

Harbison Chamber Works

This disc showcases American composer John Harbison's creativity in chamber music but it is a performance by Lorraine Hunt Lieberson...

Reviewed by Andrew Druckenbrod in issue: 2/2007

Silvestrov Symphonies Nos 4 & 5

Although Valentin Silvestrov is decently represented on disc, a cycle of his eight (to date) symphonies has yet to emerge....

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 3/2010

Charpentier Vocal Works

I first heard this sequence of eight works by Charpentier on French Radio last year. The concert was part of...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1990

Schmelzer & Co.

Whatever the craft, accelerated fashions can soon render obsolete practitioners whose work has remained largely unchanged for centuries. This disc...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 4/2010

Tchaikovsky/Glazunov Violin Concertos

Kurt Nikkanen has the supreme gift of sounding totally natural and spontaneous in degrees of expressiveness one would normally regard...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1991

Bernstein - Orchestral Works

Eiji Oue (pronounced A. G. OH-way, as the booklet says) has been Music Director of the Minnesota Orchestra since 1995....

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/1999

Einaudi Eden Roc

From the moody atmospherics of the opener‚ Yerevan and the alt. country feel of the title track‚ it is clear...

Reviewed in issue 8/2002

Mussorgsky St John's Night on the Bare Mountain; Khovanshchina-excerpts

No work of Mussorgsky’s – even Mussorgsky’s – has a more tangled history than St John’s Night on the Bare...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Stravinsky Ballet & Orchestral Music

The first thing to be said about Richard Hickox's Stravinsky is that it receives quite vividly brilliant instrumental solo playing:...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1990

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