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Glinka Orchestral Works

Following on the heels of ASV’s selection of Glinka’s orchestral music, with the Armenian Philharmonic under Loris Tjeknavorian, comes this...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/2001

Palestrina Missa Papae Marcelli

This comes from last year's BBC Radio 3 series ''The Octave of the Nativity''. And the outstanding interest of the...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 3/1986

José Cura - Anhelo

Not just a pretty voice, you might say. In his disc of Argentinian songs Jose Cura not only sings but...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/1998

R. Simpson Symphonies

It may be an unworthy thought, but I confess to a twinge of sadness at the appearance of this disc....

Reviewed in issue 12/1992

Goldmark Orchestral Works

This new Naxos recording offers Goldmark's endearing Rustic Wedding Symphony in a lively, bright-eyed performance, with two sprightly overtures (hitherto...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1995

Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 3; Rachmaninov Paganini Rhapsody

I can’t imagine any pianophile not drooling over the prospect of seeing two of the past century’s greatest players in...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 6/2006

Nancarrow Studies for Player Piano, Vol 1

Conlon Nancarrow wrote ‘can do’ music, which is oxymoronic considering it’s based on ‘can’t do’ performance realities. The set of...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 9/2006

Messiaen Poèmes pour Mi

Two of Messiaen's three song-cycles specify not 'soprano' but grand soprano dramatique. He was thinking, I suppose, of the type...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/1987

Vivaldi Gloria; A. Scarlatti Dixit Dominus

Vivaldi's more familiar of two settings of the Gloria (RV589) is coupled with what was to me, at least a...

Reviewed in issue 5/1988

Maxwell Davies Strathclyde Concertos 7 & 8 etc

In case you hadn't noticed, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies has mellowed. What a ferocious thing a concerto by him for...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1994

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