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Kokkonen The Last Temptations

Joonas Kokkonen belongs to the same generation as Robert Simpson and Peter Racine Fricker, and is undoubtedly the leading symphonist...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 12/1991

Milhaud Works for Piano & Orchestra

Of the five concertante works––out of the nearly 50 (!) Milhaud wrote––on the present disc, only the Carnaval d'Aix is...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 6/1993

Beethoven Edition, Vol.11 - Early Quartets

First, a suggestion for a Christmas musical quiz. Put on the last track of the third disc in this significant...

Reviewed in issue 13/1997

Villa-Lobos Bachianas brasileiras Nos 7, 8 & 9

For their second instalment of Bachianas brasileiras (the first contained Nos 2_4), BIS and Roberto Minczuk concentrate on the final...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 2/2007

Corp, R Songs

Ronald Corp may be well known as a choral conductor, notably of children’s choirs, but from boyhood onwards he has...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/2011

Nancarrow Studies for Player Piano, Vols.3 & 4

In 1981 Gyorgy Ligeti found the first two LPs of Nancarrow's player-piano music in a Paris record shop. His response...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 7/1991

Brahms (The) Four Symphonies

There is an the epigraph on the front of this set of the Brahms symphonies which reads in translation, “And...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/2009

Mathias Choral Works

A good specimen of lateral thinking here: at least in as far as it crosses catalogues, years and performers, and...

Reviewed in issue 2/1995

Schumann Complete Piano Works, Vol 1

Vol 1 of Finghin Collins’s Schumann cycle is revelatory. In this young Irish pianist we have an artist (and I...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 13/2006

Rachmaninov Vespers, Op 37

There ought, one would suppose, to be a good reason for releasing yet another recording of Rachmaninov’s Vespers. In...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 9/2005

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