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Orff Carmina burana

When last July I reviewed the original LP issue of this Chailly version of Orff's naggingly popular choral piece, I...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/1984

Scott Complete Piano Works, Vol 1

A revelatory orchestral recording (Chandos, 6/04) changed Cyril Scott’s fortunes in the CD catalogue and now this admirable recording inaugurates...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 7/2005

Earl Wild Recital at 88

Long after most musicians have hung up their hats and sunk into repose Earl Wild continues to play and record...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2004

Debussy Danse sacrée et danse profane; Images; (La) Mer

It has long been a cliché that you can play Ravel’s orchestral music just by doing what it says on...

Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 6/2005

Mahler Orchestral & Vocal Works

Haitink's Sixth remains an imposing essay in the classical tragic style—symphonic in the strictest sense, purposeful, single-minded and somehow inevitable...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 4/1991

Monteverdi Vespers of St John the Baptist

From Monteverdi to Handel, and beyond, liturgical reconstruction is in vogue and these two reconstructions of Vespers settings are the...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 4/1989

Russian Opera Choruses

Secretly, let's face it-or is this one of those heresies with which the guilty soul has to live companionless?-the moments...

Reviewed in issue 5/1994

Good Evening...Here is the News Music by Django Bates

Django Bates has a high profile as a jazz composer, arranger, musician, leader and sideman, and he has been in...

Reviewed by kshadwick in issue: 8/1996

Mozart Piano Concertos Nos. 18 & 19

With this third disc in their series (the first two were reviewed in 7/94 and 9/95), Robert Levin and Christopher...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 11/1996

Modern Masters II

Further rarities from the New World—but still no buried treasure. ''Modern Masters II'' proves something of a palate-cleanser after the...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/1991

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