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Zwilich Orchestral Works

I was quite struck by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's First Symphony (New World, 6/87), and immediately recognized the characteristic intensity of...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1995

Frankel Music for the Movies

Welcoming a complete recording of Benjamin Frankel’s music to the film Battle of the Bulge (CPO‚ 12/00)‚ Robert Seeley recommended...

Reviewed in issue 5/2002

Prokofiev Piano Concertos Nos 1, 4 & 5

Demidenko is arguably more at home with Prokofiev than with the romantic repertoire and here he completes his cycle of...

Reviewed in issue 11/1998

A Voice from Heaven

Recorded in situ, the York Minster Chapter House Choir sing in a way that fully supports their description in the...

Reviewed in issue 4/1998

Tavener The Hidden Face

A number of contemporary composers have taken to writing for early instruments. George Benjamin’s Upon Silence enlisted Fretwork’s viols a...

Reviewed in issue 11/2001

Dukas Piano Sonata; Decaux Clairs de lune

Dukas’s E flat minor Sonata (1900) is a rare (the only?) French example of the form from this period. Lasting...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 7/2006

Jongen Cello Concerto; Impressions d' Ardennes Op 44

On these two discs less is more. Which means, unfortunately, that more is less. Letting young composers loose on a...

Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 5/2003

Schnittke; Shostakovich Piano Quintets

At first sight this looks like a splendidly economical way to acquire two fine (and not unrelated) works which have...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 1/2003

Saint-Saëns/Messiaen Orchestral Works

Having enjoyed much of Chung's work to date (and in particular his excellent Nielsen/Gothenburg SO series for BIS), I must...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/1993

Russian Piano Concertos

What treasures are being unearthed from Moscow's Radio Archives, an Aladdin's Cave of great piano recordings in particular! This reissue...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/1994

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