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Vangelis Alexander

The music for Oliver Stone’s new film Alexander features several characteristics of the Vangelis style, from synthesisers, acoustic instruments and...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 3/2005

Contemporary Irish String Quartets

Irish composers (unlike Irish writers) are not generally well known outside Ireland. Stanford and Maconchy are unusual in having achieved...

Reviewed in issue 10/1994

Mozart Early Symphonies

The Prague Chamber Orchestra do not use period instruments and play at standard modern pitch, but under Mackerras's expert stylish...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 9/1988

Tchaikovsky Orchestral Works

The special delight here is the orchestration of Tchaikovsky’s piano suite, The Seasons. It was made at the height of...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1997

Schumann Symphonies Nos 3 & 4

Around the time this CD dropped on my mat I was happily revisiting Herbert von Karajan’s broad and imposing 1987...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 1/2009

Puccini (La) Bohème

Baz Luhrmann’s ground-breaking and highly regarded production was new at Sydney in 1990. It was committed to video in 1993....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/2003

Heininen: Orchestral and Piano Works

Paavo Heininen is notable as one of the first Finnish composers to adopt the 12-note technique (around 1960); but he...

Reviewed in issue 12/1990

Chopin Nocturnes; Barcarolle; Fantaisie

Listening once more to Arrau’s Liszt is to recollect those many occasions in the concert hall when he seemed like...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2001

An Organ for All Occasions

This is one of the most exciting organ recordings. I have come across. For one thing, we are hearing a...

Reviewed in issue 3/1986

Recorder Concertos

It could not be said that any of these works represents its composer at his best; indeed, Heinichen (sometimes) and...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 7/1994

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