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Bach Cantatas

Plotting exactly which steps of the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage are to be retraced with each new release is akin to...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2007

Charpentier (Le) Ballet de Polieucte; Intermedes d'Andromede

This is the New Chamber Opera’s second recorded foray into Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s incidental theatre music: while their first centred on...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 2/2003

John Adams Chamber Symphony; Grand Pianola Music

A loud bash on an old tin can, and they're off—yelping, tapping, chattering, chasing to and fro, like a barn-yard...

Reviewed in issue 3/1995

Cilea Gina

‘O gioia!’ sings everyone on stage at the end of this small masterpiece‚ rejoicing because that which was lost has...

Reviewed in issue 5/2002

Handel Water Music

For those who are not yet convinced about 'original instruments' and who still enjoy the sound of a full modern...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/1985

Reich Variations for Winds

It’s difficult today to appreciate how radical a move it seemed when DG issued the earlier two of these works‚...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

Bernstein Complete Works for Solo Piano

Of the six works comprising Bernstein’s entire piano output, no less than four are sets of Anniversaries – touching, characteristically...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/1999

In Memory of Steven de Groote (1953-89)

Finlandia's two-disc album is issued in memory of Steven de Groote, the South African pianist who died at the tragically...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/1992

Saint-Saëns Hélène; Nuit Persane

Hélène is Saint-Saëns’s one-act opera, long neglected, on the Helen of Troy story, written to his own libretto with reigning...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 13/2008

Glazunov Symphonies Nos 4 and 7

As in his recording of the Fifth Symphony and The Seasons (12/04), which inaugurated his Glazunov cycle, Serebrier instantly conveys...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2006

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