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Schubert Choral Songs

Most of the part-songs here evoke some aspect of night, whether benevolent, romantic, transfigured or sinister; and between them they...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 5/1999

Nono No hay caminos, hay que caminar; Varianti; Variazioni canoniche

Nono ‘for beginners’ might seem an unlikely prospect given the uncompromising nature of his music‚ but this new disc fits...

Reviewed in issue 9/2002

Dvorak Czech Suite; Suk Pohadka Suite

Though the performers and the works are all Czech, the technicians behind this Exton issue are all Japanese, with the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2009

Kabalevsky Symphonies 1 & 2

Dmitri Kabalevsky’s two-movement First Symphony (1932) combines local colour and sustained development to enjoyable effect. Even finer is its successor...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/1998

Lord Boom of the Tingling Strings

Let’s clear snobbery and misapprehension out of the way first. Lord was a leading light of the group Deep Purple,...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 7/2008

New Year's Day Concert 2002

It is a special New Year’s concert in the Vienna Musikvereinsaal: on the organ pipes behind the orchestra‚ a...

Reviewed in issue 5/2002

Kernis Air/Coloured Field/Musica Celestis

Aaron Jay Kernis (b 1960) has recently been receiving wide attention and frequent performances in North America. His music is...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Malcolm Frager plays Chopin

The composer we meet here is certainly no fragile, invalid dreamer. Malcolm Frager is a bold Chopin player with strong...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1991

Erik Chisholm - Piano Music

Influenced by Bartok, the Scottish composer Erik Chisholm (1904-65) drew inspiration from his national folk music. This enterprising if uneven...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 12/1998

MacMilian Symphony No 3

Hard on the heels of Universal Classics’ mid-price reissue of Jerzy Maksymiuk’s Gramophone Award-winning first recording of The Confession of...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 5/2005

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