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Khachaturian 3 Concert Arias; Ode to Joy, Ode to Stalin

The 1956 Ode to Joy is, both melodically and harmonically, very much in the Armenian world of Gayaneh. It begins...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/2001

Aaron Jay Kernis - Top 100 Greatest Dance Hits

Aaron Jay Kernis is a big hitter on the American new music scene, a composer whose work was picked up...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 8/2007

Verdi Don Carlos

Bertrand de Billy set out in Vienna to perform just about every bar written for Verdi’s first, French, version of...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/2006

Bliss Miracle in the Gorbals; Thing to Come - excs; Discourse

The second of Bliss’s four ballets, Miracle in the Gorbals – a biblical allegory, set in a slum near the...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/1999

Franck; Prokofiev; Wagner Works for Flute and Piano

At the radiantly lovely opening of the Prokofiev Sonata one realises that Marina Piccinini’s flute-playing is very special, her lyrical...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/2006

Great Sopranos of Our Time

Scotto opens, not putting her best note forward at the start of ''Un bel di'' but availing herself of the...

Reviewed in issue 11/1986

Liszt: Piano Works

Max Harrison was right, I'm sure, to commend the intelligence of this reading of the B minor Sonata and, especially,...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/1983

Gibbons; Tomkins; Weelkes I Heard a Voice

Golden Ages in general may abide our question; this one is free. Weelkes, Gibbons and Tomkins adorn it richly, and...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/2007

Handel Apollo e Dafne - Italian Cantatas, Vol 7

Sadly, even exceptionally good things must come to an end: La Risonanza has reached the seventh and final instalment in...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2010

Brahms Violin Concerto

This was the work in which Gidon Kremer was launched on the British public. His concert performance at the Royal...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1983

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