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Brian Ferneyhough, Volume 2

This disc traces a path through Brian Ferneyhough’s work during the years from 1985 to 1992. The ‘brief shadows’ of...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/1997

Magdalena Kozená - French Arias

Magdalena Kozená, Czech mezzo, now French soprano; well, not quite, this is a mixture of arias for soprano and mezzo....

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 13/2003

Sweet and Low - Glees and Partsongs

My choirboy days were 'enlivened' by occasional concerts in the Choir School at which despite our ill-concealed and unseemly mirth,...

Reviewed in issue 3/1987

Nielsen Orchestral works

Simon Rattle made quite an impression with his reading of Nielsen's Fourth Symphony with the Philharmonia Orchestra some years ago...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 11/1985

Liszt Piano Works, Vol.41

Melodrama has its uses in opera, from Benda and Mozart via Beethoven and Weber to more modern experiments; but the...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/1997

Beethoven Diabelli Variations

This is an interesting and unusual coupling, underpinned by the idea that Beethoven regarded his Diabelli Variations, despite their breadth...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 8/1998

Ravel Orchestrations

The odd-man-out in this generously filled programme is the early Sheherazade Overture, which isn’t an orchestration of an established piano...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/1998

Bobby McFerrin-Circlesongs

As if to demonstrate his versatility, Bobby McFerrin follows his unorthodox disc of Mozart concertos with Chick Corea (Sony Classical,...

Reviewed in issue 9/1997

Janácek Orchestral Suites from the Operas No 1

Quite why anyone would want to experience Janácek’s operas in the form of orchestral suites not made by him or...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 5/2009

La Parnasse Francais

Musica Antiqua offer here a CD potpourri of their previously recorded French chamber music, taking its name from Titon du...

Reviewed in issue 4/1986

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