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Review of Lutoslawski Orchestral Works, Volume 3

Lutoslawski Orchestral Works, Volume 3

If you are collecting Naxos’s super-bargain Lutoslawski releases this, the third in the series, should be of particular interest, containing...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/1997

Review of Ligeti Works for Piano, Two Pianos and Piano Four Hands

Ligeti Works for Piano, Two Pianos and Piano Four Hands

Ligeti’s continuing series of piano Etudes is one of the few compositions from the past quarter-century to be approaching repertory...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/2004

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Review of Bach Cantatas BWV82, 102 and 178

Bach Cantatas BWV82, 102 and 178

This disc, the first in a new series, exemplifies Sigiswald Kuijken’s highly selective and considered approach to Bach’s cantatas. By...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2006

Review of Locatelli Concerti Grossi

Locatelli Concerti Grossi

Pietro Antonio Locatelli, born in Bergamo in 1695, was trained in Rome and lived from 1729 in Amsterdam. The 24...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 1/1996

Review of Finzi/Howells Vocal Works

Finzi/Howells Vocal Works

An axiom in the aesthetics of eschatology has it that Hell is good value and Paradise rather a liability. Perhaps...

Reviewed in issue 5/1992

Review of Clucas Choral Works

Clucas Choral Works

Written by a lifelong chorister (now a tenor at Westminster Abbey) and performed by a choir of 22 young experts,...

Reviewed in issue 11/1998

Review of Bazimakoo

Bazimakoo

It’s common enough for reviewers simply not to review a disc that falls well short of the mark. In this...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2008

Review of Works for Trumpet & Piano

Works for Trumpet & Piano

This CD provides a quite astonishing recording debut for a young Russian virtuoso, barely 15 at the time this record...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/1993

Review of Mendelssohn (Der) Onkel aus Boston

Mendelssohn (Der) Onkel aus Boston

‘Put a real opera libretto into my hands, and in a few moments it will be composed,’ wrote Mendelssohn to...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 1/2006

Review of Railroad Rhythms

Railroad Rhythms

In 1993 Marco Polo issued a pair of CDs of “Lokomotiv-Musik”. They concentrated on Viennese-style dance music, whereas this new...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 12/2006


 

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