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Bakfark/Waissel - Lute Works

'Never play the lute after Bakfark. 'No, not a line from some 'A Doctor Writes' column, but an old Polish...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 4/2000

Prokofiev Syms 1-7; Lieutenant Kijé

On paper this looks like a winner. The Berlin Philharmonic is easily the most prestigious orchestra to have attempted all...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2000

Bruch/Schumann Clarinet Works

Here are 54 minutes of unassuming ‘domestic’ music, played carefully without special pleading or concert-hall-type projection of any kind, and...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 2/1996

Stravinsky Oedipus Rex

Only three works by Stravinsky are in any sense over-represented in the current catalogue, and Oedipus Rex seems unlikely to...

Reviewed in issue 3/1994

Fretwork - Bach alio modo

The musicians of Fretwork are in playful mood. Their creative energy is one of the many qualities that mark them...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 10/2005

Erwin Schrott - Rojotango

It is sometimes overlooked that tango – at least as it has appeared in classical forms – is primarily a...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 13/2011

Modern Chamber Works

The intellectualized campus-style hyperbole of the notes which accompany this disc, vacuously entitled ''Travels through time and texture'', fail to...

Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 9/1992

Beethoven/Mozart Orchestral Works

The guiding principle behind this coupling is a certain Apollonian quality – clarity‚ Classical proportion – that‚ in Günter Wand’s...

Reviewed in issue 9/2002

Williams Memoirs of a Geisha - OST

John Williams, we’re told, has relinquished his franchise on the Harry Potter cycle to concentrate on films offering a greater...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 4/2006

Romitelli (An) Index of Metals

The death of Fausto Romitelli in 2003 at the age of only 41 deprived contemporary music of a singular talent,...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 7/2006

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