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Nicole Cabell - Soprano

Here’s an hour of enchantment from the American soprano who won the 2005 Cardiff Singer of the World. There she...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/2007

John Cage Ten; Ryoanji; Fourteen

Ryoanji (1985) is unusual in that it brings together all of Cage’s oriental disengagements in a work which responds to...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 2/1996

Franck Organ Works Vol I

After the epoch-making complete organ works of Messiaen, Jennifer Bate now makes the Beauvais organ speak with a wholly different...

Reviewed in issue 12/1983

Vivaldi Edition - complete

In 1978 Philips marked Vivaldi's birth tercentenary with their family-size Edizione Vivaldi, ten box-sets of LPs; the first five...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 7/1991

Carreras, Domingo and Pavarotti in Concert

''Oh what a night!'' as somebody used to sing. Well, I think it probably was a night: to enjoy and...

Reviewed in issue 10/1990

Duruflé Choral Works

Durufle's Requiem exists in three versions. The first calls for a large orchestra, the second, intended for liturgical use, is...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 2/2000

Sibelius Scenes Historiques

Recordings of this entrancing repertoire are always welcome, particularly when they are as polished and involving as this. A virtuoso...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/2008

Busoni Brautwahl Suite; Geharnishte Suite

Most Busoni enthusiasts will no doubt have acquired Daniel Barenboim's complete recording of Die Brautwahl, which appeared last year (Teldec,...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/2000

Bruckner Symphony No 8

There are those for whom Riccardo Chailly’s Mahler will never be neurotic (or Jewish) enough for all its undoubted qualities....

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2002

MacMillan (The) World's Ransoming; (The) Confession of Isobel Gowdie

Sir Colin Davis and the LSO bring out the mainstream qualities of James MacMillan’s orchestral music. With such assured playing,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/2008

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