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Review of Beethoven/Bruch Violin Concertos

Beethoven/Bruch Violin Concertos

Kyung Wha Chung has recorded both of these central concertos before, but in this generous and attractive coupling these EMI...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1992

Review of Willaert/Rore/Lassus/Manchicourt Sacred Choral Works

Willaert/Rore/Lassus/Manchicourt Sacred Choral Works

None of the composers in this recital have received the sort of coverage they deserve (no, not even Lassus: how...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 1/1999

Review of Liszt Piano Concertos

Liszt Piano Concertos

These are old recordings by CD standards, and one is aware of background tape hiss in such passages as the...

Reviewed in issue 12/1984

Review of Wuorinen Piano Works

Wuorinen Piano Works

This latest product of Alan Feinberg’s genius is quite different from the eccentric Argo anthologies I have increasingly admired (1/91,...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 9/1996

Review of Joseph James Requiem after J S Bach

Joseph James Requiem after J S Bach

This is the work of two composers, Stanley Joseph Seeger and Francis James Brown (their middle names provide the nom...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 5/1999

Review of Zemlinsky Lyrische Symphonie & Symphonische Gesänge

Zemlinsky Lyrische Symphonie & Symphonische Gesänge

Zemlinsky is still a far from repertory composer. No recording company can bank on a group of reliable 'Zemlinsky specialists'...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1994

Review of 20th Century English Choral Works

20th Century English Choral Works

This superb Dutch group under their permanent guest conductor, John Alldis, offer high-class choral singing. The magical start of “Full...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 2/1998

Review of Puccini Il Trittico

Puccini Il Trittico

The late Giuseppe Patane's Munich recording of Il trittico appeared earlier on three separate discs. Not only were they at...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1990

Review of McDowall, C Choral Works

McDowall, C Choral Works

Dutton’s fourth anthology devoted to the music of Cecilia McDowall (b1951) launches in delightful fashion with Laudate (2008), an exuberant...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2009

Review of Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-6 & K.242

Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-6 & K.242

These piano concertos are derivative works, written by a boy of 11 in the case of Nos. 1–4—which are actually...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 1/1989


 

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