Cage Music of Changes

Music of Changes is regarded as a breakthrough piece in its use of chance operations based on the I Ching...

Reviewed in issue 8/1989

Wagner Arias

Generous tone, warm feeling, expressive colouring, ample power and range…and the ‘wobble’. But just what, exactly, is this ‘wobble’? No...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/2006

Things Visible and Invisible

Catharine Crozier has found a connecting thread linking these three works other than the obvious one that they are all...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 2/1995

Chopin & WIeniawski Piano Concertos

I have always thought the arguments for rewriting the orchestral scores of the two Chopin concertos to be very tenuous...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 11/1990

Victoria Responsories & Lamentations

With the appearance of these two releases and the promise of others to come in the near future, Victoria's Tenebrae...

Reviewed in issue 1/1991

D. Gaultier Rhétorique des Dieux

Denis Gaultier (c. 1600-72) was perhaps the greatest lutenist of his time, though he is not known to have held...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 6/1990

Sibelius Songs, Vol. 1

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 7/1990

MacMillan Visitatio Sepulchri; Sun-Dogs

It is remarkable that a Dutch choir can offer such strong and polished performances of these two choral works by...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2010

Popov Symphonic Suite No 1; Symphony No 5

The third of Olympia’s Popov issues confirms the strong impressions already established (2/96 and 7/96). Gavriil Popov (1904-72) is the...

Reviewed in issue 8/1997

Schoenberg Friede auf Erden

The Accentus Chamber Choir usually come up with something unpredictable, but on this occasion it seems a pity to have...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/2005