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Zimmermann Antiphonen; Omnia tempus habent; Présence

Anyone who has been swept away by the melodramatic intensity of Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s Requiem for a young poet (Sony...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/1997

Handel Jephtha

Handel’s last oratorio is a profound masterpiece. This recording, patched together by Norwegian Radio, squeezes onto just two discs, which...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 7/2011

Mozart Clarinet Concerto KV622

Martin Fröst has a bright tone and a brilliant finger technique, which perhaps contribute to his taking a strongly extrovert...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 13/2003

Mascharada Music at the Bückeburg Court of Ernst III

Quite how far the influence of the grand seventeenth-century English consort tradition extended beyond native shores is hard to estimate....

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/1996

Sibelius Piano Works

It is hard to think of Sibelius as a composer of fragrant salon miniatures, and this recital shows him in...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2000

Messiaen Piano Works

This completes Håkon Austbø’s survey of Messiaen’s piano music; more than completes it, in fact, since so far as I...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 1/2003

Efrem Kurtz conducts Shostakovich

Kurtz’s mono recording of the Tenth makes a good if not world-beating showing even by today’s standards. It has been...

Reviewed in issue 2/1997

Benjamin Britten - (A) Film by Tony Palmer

This DVD is a digital remastering of a television documentary by Tony Palmer from some years back. Based around an...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/2007

Falla Ballet Music

With Dutoit's outstanding Decca coupling of Falla's El amor brujo and El sombrero de tres picos (8/83) still dominating the...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/1990

Humperdinck Königskinder

It is easy to see why Konigskinder, for all its many beauties, has never begun to match Humperdinck’s masterpiece, Hansel...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1997

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