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MacMillan Seven Last Words from the Cross; Cantos Sagrados

One of the first successes on RCA's Catalyst label was James MacMillan's percussion concerto for Evelyn Glennie, Veni, veni Emmanuel...

Reviewed in issue 5/1995

Scelsi Chamber Works

Like such modern masters as Tippett, Carter and Messiaen, all born in the early years of this century, Giacinto Scelsi...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/1990

Mussorgsky Songs

There is very little to praise in this unfortunate issue. Safiulin, a name new to me, has a grey, opaque...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1996

Ave Verum - The Soul Ascends

The sprightly tempo and clean semiquavers of the famous Vivaldi Gloria give instant reassurance just where it is needed. The...

Reviewed in issue 7/1998

Veress Piano Works

Initial impressions are misleading: a comfortably crescendoing string chord followed by simple keyboard chiming, a bit like a fragment from...

Reviewed in issue 11/1998

Schubert Cello and Piano Works

Back in 1996 Wispelwey and Giacometti recorded transcriptions of Schubert’s three “little” violin sonatas (D384, 385, 408). I remember not...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 4/2010

Constant Lambert conducts

This is a delicious record. I have long hoped that EMI would reissue and combine Lambert's two separate recordings of...

Reviewed in issue 10/1988

Vadim Gluzman - Time...and again

Most of these pieces have an appeal of their own though I’m not sure they work as a programme. Schnittke’s...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2004

Michel Scwalbe plays Violin Concertos

Michel Schwalbe is probably best known as the distinguished First Concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic during the years 1957-86, the...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/1999

Strauss Family Orchestral Works

Marriner has previously recorded Metamorphosen with his Academy of St Martin in the Fields for Argo in 1969. This new...

Reviewed in issue 6/1989

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