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Janácek Opera Suites

The most recent and thorough of these orchestral suites is the six-movement paraphrase of Mr Broueek, ingeniously made in 1994...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1999

Sorabji Transcriptions for Piano

Forget about orchestral timbres in the transcription of Ravel’s Rapsodie Espagnole that opens this recital. These are pointedly pianistic sonorities....

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 8/2003

Tavener Akathist of Thanksgiving

With the success of the ecstatic Protecting Veil, it has perhaps been easy to forget just how rigorous and austere...

Reviewed in issue 9/1994

Isaksson, M Failles

Nordic music is well served for women composers, several of whom – such as Kaija Saariaho, Cecilie Øre and Karin...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 2/2006

Wagner Lohengrin

Barenboim’s extended journey into Wagnerian territory has now brought him to the banks of the River Scheldt and the landing...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1999

Schubert Piano Sonatas

It was way back in 1974 that Brendel completed his last memorable cycle of Schubert's later (1822–8) piano works (6747...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 11/1988

Berlioz Harold en Italie & Overtures

Myung-Whun Chung follows up his inspired recording of Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique (DG, 4/96) with an equally individual and sympathetic reading...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1997

Schumann Complete Symphonies

“Schumann revealed” says the outer cover to this set. That is a fair enough description, when John Eliot Gardiner here...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1998

Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms; Symphony In C; Symphony In Three Movements

While I was listening to this handsome new recording of Stravinsky’s unashamedly confrontational Symphony in Three Movements, tragic news of...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 8/2008

Surprise

William Bolcom’s Cabaret Songs (there are 28 of them in all) were composed for Joan Morris, who recorded them with...

Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 4/2008

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