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Mahler Symphony No 2

Jordan directs a lucid and coherent Resurrection, heard to best advantage in the pastoral episodes of the opening movement, the...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 9/1998

Brahms Violin Concerto; Double Concerto

This is, as you’d expect from this violinist, a disc that offers beauty and thought-provoking musicianship in equal measure. And...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 3/2009

Berg Wozzeck;Schoenberg Erwartung

The first ever recording of Wozzeck was made at a couple of concert performances in New York conducted by Dmitri...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/1989

(The) Carry on Album - Music from the Films

The music for nearly all 31 Carry On films was supplied by just two composers, Bruce Montgomery (1921-78) and Eric...

Reviewed by rseeley in issue: 9/1999

Vivaldi Cello Concertos

Writing for the cello often finds Vivaldi at his most stylistically varied and also, to my mind, at his most...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1984

Falla Stage Works

This recording from Barcelona is of two of Falla's stage pieces. The gitaneria or 'gipsy scene' called El amor brujo...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 5/1992

Chopin Piano Concerto No 1; Piano Works

Maria Joao Pires has garnered a special reputation for Chopin, and she follows her acclaimed Second Piano Concerto – coupled...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 1/1999

Bizet Carmen

Updating rarely makes such a seamless case for itself as in this modern Calixto Bieito production of Carmen. Amid the...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 1/2012

Martinu Song of the Czech Highlands, 4 Songs (1955 - 1959)

This quartet of cantatas is a product of Martin<=’s last years (1955-59), a time when he was busy with several...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/2003

Pärt Orchestral Works

Most of these pieces illustrate Pärt’s tintinnabulist style. The exception is Collage, occupying a modernist/post-modernist cusp: some passages might almost...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 1/2005

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