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Bax Piano Music, Vol 3

Ashley Wass’s classy Bax survey for Naxos has now reached the piano miniatures – though that term hardly does justice...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 4/2006

Berlioz Romeo et Juliette

Pierre Boulez has made a long journey from his days as an enfant terrible in the 1950s, when no composer...

Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 4/2004

Mélodies françaises

There have been quite a few French-speaking singers who have made their mark in Lieder. (Souzay, Crespin, more recently Pollet...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 5/1997

Stevenson Passacaglia on DSCH

Composing an unbroken 85-minute passacaglia on a four-note theme is not necessarily a wondrous feat; nor is it necessarily folly....

Reviewed in issue 10/1988

Joubert Symphony No 1

Released as a specially priced CD single to mark the composer’s 80th birthday, this superb account of John Joubert’s First...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 13/2007

Telemann Concertos, Sonatas & Suites

The seemingly endless supply of Telemann’s orchestral music shows no sign of palling in this latest release from Collegium Musicum...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 9/1996

Tjeknavorian Othello

Loris Tjeknavorian, an Austrian-Armenian, has travelled much in the course of study, of conducting and of composing. As a composer...

Reviewed in issue 11/1985

Bach St Matthew Passion

The ascetic simplicity of the Klosterkirche Alpirsbach in Bavaria is an ideal setting for a performance of the Passion (or...

Reviewed in issue 8/2002

Fleus de Vertus

Happy the reviewer whose prayers are answered! Last year I enthusiastically welcomed “Ballades a III chans” (Arcana, 1/96), the Ferrara...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 5/1997

Zandonai Francesca da Rimini

Francesca da Rimini, whose music fuses post-Puccinian Italian lyricism with voluptuously rich orchestral colour owing something to Wagner, rather more...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 13/1997

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