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Sørensen Shadowland

This new disc is a graphic calling-card for the already well-travelled music of the 41-year-old Danish composer and pupil of...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 6/1999

Pott Christus

The English composer Francis Pott (b1957) describes his Christus – a Passion symphony for organ – as a ‘once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon’....

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 12/2005

Johan Helmich Roman - (The) Swedish Virtuoso

Johan Helmich Roman (1694-1758) was the first Swedish composer of note. Variously dubbed “the father of Swedish music”, “the Swedish...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 10/2009

Alwyn Orchestral Works

Two new releases in this distinguished Alwyn/Chandos series each serve to increase our knowledge of the composer. The Piano Concerto...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/1994

Rautavaara Aleksis Kivi

Idyll turned to nightmare, optimism to disillusionment, creative fruitfulness to barren schizophrenia and premature death. The tragic fate of the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 1/2003

Wuorinen Music of Two Decades

The years 1968-70, when these works were composed, were of particular significance in Charles Wuorinen’s development. Then in his early...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 7/1997

Carter Orchestral music

The first CD devoted to Carter contains what is probably the toughest of all his works—a vigorous riposte to those...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/1987

Chopin Piano works

Here, in recordings dating from 1946-58, superbly remastered, is Rubinstein in all his early glory. Made long before the occasional...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 13/2011

Stravinsky Petrushka; Rite of Spring

If it's a budget-price CD Rite you seek then Mackerras's exciting and illuminating account on EMI Eminence has to be...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 1/1989

Handel Messiah

After suffering great disappointment with Nicholas McGegan's Harmonia Mundi interpretation of Handel's Messiah on the one hand, and finding Claudio...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1992

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