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Bach Organ Works Vol 10

I am curiously dissatisfied by this latest offering in Nimbus’s Bach series. There is so much to praise that it...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 1/1999

Ivar Andrésen (1896-1940) - II

Andresen, the template for so many Scandinavian basses, was principal at the Berlin State Opera and Bayreuth from 1927 to...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1997

Launis Aslak Hetta

Here’s an interesting discovery, and then some. After 23 years’ teaching singing and theory in Helsinki, with a sideline as...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 9/2005

Feldman Neither

The sparse, allusive texts of Samuel Beckett have often attracted the attention of composers, including the more-jazz-than-not of Michael Mantler’s,...

Reviewed by rthomas in issue: 10/1998

Ireland Piano Works

To bring out a collection of John Ireland’s piano music on a budget-priced label shows welcome enterprise on CfP’s part....

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 4/1996

20th-century music from the British Isles for clarinet& piano

Not just a collection of clarinet works, but a well-devised retrospective of British music over three decades. Bennett’s virtuoso, theatrical...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 9/1998

Carter In Sleep, in Thunder/Triple Duo

This splendid record celebrates the remarkable rapport between a great American composer and two outstanding British contemporary music groups. In...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/1986

Escher: Chamber and Instrumental Works

When we hear so little of the 'major' Dutch composers of this century such as Pijper and Vermeulen, it is...

Reviewed in issue 11/1985

Sessions Complete Works for Solo Piano

Although all three Sessions works have been recorded more than once in the USA, this new release brings them neatly...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 12/1992

Baroque Opera Arias

For some years Carolyn Watkinson has been collecting good notices for her performances in baroque opera, often in castrato roles,...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/1989

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