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Corigliano Clarinet Concerto; Saariaho Orion

Corigliano’s Clarinet Concerto, full to bursting with antiphony and visual spectacle, might best survive the transition to CD in a...

Reviewed by Arved Ashby in issue: 12/2005

Linley The Song of Moses

There is no doubting that English music in the second half of the eighteenth century did not quite know where...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/1998

Eybler Symphonies Nos 1 and 2

The name of Joseph Eybler (1765-1846) is known to Mozart lovers as Constanze’s first choice to complete the Requiem. After...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 4/2006

Adams Gnarly Buttons; John's Book of Alleged Dances

Anyone who suspects that Cage’s prepared piano was a period cul-de-sac should hear the way John Adams works it into...

Reviewed in issue 8/1998

Mozart: Chamber Works

These are works dating from the 1780s; masterly music and, in two cases, as dramatic as Mozart's use of the...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 4/1991

Grieg Piano Works

One of the most distinguished Norwegian pianists of this century, Riefling died five years ago in his late seventies. As...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 10/1994

Wagner Opera Excerpts

Here is a welcome souvenir of McIntyre, for his many admirers, in some of his notable Wagnerian assumptions. One of...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1992

Carter String Quartets Nos. 2, 3 & 4

The Pacifica Quartet’s follow-up to its disc of Elliott Carter’s First and Fifth Quartets (4/08) finds the composer exploring the...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 4/2009

W. F. Bach Cantatas, Vol.1

These two discs of sacred cantatas by Bach's eldest son, Wilhelm Friedemann, make a valuable contribution towards a fuller understanding...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1994

Carter Chamber Works

This disc underlines the differences between the earlier and later Carters: the neo-classical disciple of Nadia Boulanger in the Wind...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/1998

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