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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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