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Telemann The Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus

What motivated Telemann to produce a succession of oratorios in the late autumn of his life is unclear. Perhaps, as...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1996

Langgaard; Nielsen Organ Works

The suspicion is that the interest shown in the organ music of those composers who are more famous outside the...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 13/2010

Shostakovich: Piano Works

The Fantastic Dances have never been too difficult to get hold of, but the fine Second Sonata is no longer...

Reviewed in issue 10/1988

Beethoven Orchestral & Choral Works

It is probably not entirely coincidental that the two memorable performances from this latest instalment of Abbado's Beethoven cycle are...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/1988

Bernstein Symphony No 1; Del Tredici Paul Revere's Ride; Theofandis (The) Here and Now

In Rainbow Body, the winning composition in the 2003 Masterprize competition, Christopher Theofanidis transformed a chant by Hildegard of Bingen...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2005

Monteverdi (L') Orfeo

In this recent production from Barcelona’s lavish Gran Teatre del Liceu, stage director Gilbert Deflo uses the emblem of mirrors...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 2/2003

Clementi Piano Music

There have been several excellent issues of Clementi's piano music on period instruments, such as those by Immerseel (Accent, 3/87)...

Reviewed in issue 9/1995

Sir Thomas Beecham conducts Mozart

Like previous Dutton issues of Beecham, this one offers recordings from an interim period of his career which has been...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1999

Gluck Orfeo ed Euricdice (abridged)

Nothing like comparisons for putting things in perspective. “What a horrible sound!” I thought at the beginning of this, and...

Reviewed in issue 8/1998

Shostakovich Symphony 14 & Blok Romances

I have commented before on Revelation’s lack of quality control. And yet, alongside some shockingly undistinguished issues, there have been...

Reviewed in issue 7/1998

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