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Stockhausen: Instrumental Works

For those who associate Stockhausen exclusively with the grandiose complexities of Momente or Donnerstag, and their multiple layers of live...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/1988

Górecki Orchestral Works

Stefan Jarocinski wrote in Contemporary Music in Europe—a comprehensive survey (G. Schirmer Inc: 1966) that: ''It is with great spiritual...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 11/1993

Britten Peter Grimes

With three worthwhile versions already in the catalogue, you may wonder whether there is place for another. The answer is...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1996

Christa Ludwig Tribute to Vienna

I have the programme and a vivid memory of Ludwig's recital debut in London at the Wigmore Hall, under the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1995

Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Byron Janos, Volume 1

In 1944 Byron Janis, a highly promising 16-year-old, played Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto in Pittsburgh, conducted by the 15-year-old Lorin...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 8/1999

Pärt/Tormis Choral Music

Most people will come to this disc for the pieces by Arvo Part (b. 1935), especially for the coupling of...

Reviewed in issue 9/1996

Schumann: Piano Works

This is light-fingered, nimble Schumann playing graced by feminine charm and fancy even If not always penetrating to the music's...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 10/1988

Red Leaves

Of contemporary composers neglected by record companies, no case is more surprising than that of Malcolm Williamson (b.1931). Irrespective of...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/1997

Mahler Song Cycles etc

Peckova has received adulatory reviews at her recent debuts in this country. Heard live, she seems to be a stunning...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1996

Britten The World of the Spirit etc

The Coplandesque An American Overture – written in October 1941 for Artur Rodzinski and the Cleveland Orchestra but unperformed until...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/1997

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