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Review of North Texas Wind Symphony: Contact. Taylor Made

North Texas Wind Symphony: Contact. Taylor Made

The North Texas Wind Symphony are nothing if not industrious, with a recording history going back to the late 1980s....

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2018

Review of ROSSÉ Métissage: Music for Saxophone and Piano

ROSSÉ Métissage: Music for Saxophone and Piano

Adam Estes’s tribute to Francois Rossé, who studied with Messiaen and collaborates with saxophone great Jean-Marie Londeix, is a brilliant...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 05/2018

Review of RANJBARAN; TICHELI; WARNAAR Wind Concertos

RANJBARAN; TICHELI; WARNAAR Wind Concertos

As 21st-century wind concertos go, this is as entertaining as it gets. I have not encountered the music of Frank...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2018

Review of FEIGIN Piano Works

FEIGIN Piano Works

Sara Feigin (1928-2011) pursued a multifaceted career as pianist, composer and educator, first in her native Latvia and subsequently in...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2018

Review of CORRETTE Sonatas for Harpsichord and Violin Op 25

CORRETTE Sonatas for Harpsichord and Violin Op 25

While Michel Corrette’s methods and writings rank alongside those by Geminiani, CPE Bach, Quantz and Tartini, fate has been less...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 05/2018

Review of BAXTER Ask the Moon

BAXTER Ask the Moon

There are many lovely things on this recording of songs by Garth Baxter about loss and memory, and of marrying...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 05/2018

Review of La Nilsson: Complete Decca, Philips and DG Recordings

La Nilsson: Complete Decca, Philips and DG Recordings

This anniversary set places under one attractive, inevitably large yet manageably portable roof all of Birgit Nilsson’s major-label recordings (the...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 05/2018

Review of Enfers: Famous Opera Scenes by Rameau and Gluck

Enfers: Famous Opera Scenes by Rameau and Gluck

My advice to anyone buying this excellent disc is to start by ignoring the contents of the booklet (apart from...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2018

Review of Anita Rachvelishvili

Anita Rachvelishvili

Anita Rachvelishvili had the sort of remarkable big break of which young singers can only dream. Aged 25, a member...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2018

Review of WEINBERGER Wallenstein

WEINBERGER Wallenstein

That it took a Bohemian Jew to bring Germany’s foundational drama of nationhood to the lyric stage was an irony...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2018

 

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