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Twentieth-Century Music and Politics: Essays in Memory of Neil Edmunds, edited by Pauline Fairclough. Ashgate, £58.50.
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- 08 October 2013, pp. 95-97
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Nordheim - NORDHEIM: Complete accordion works. Spur3; Signals1–2. Dinosauros; Flashing. Frode Haltli (acc), 1Raoul Björkenheim (elec gtr), 2Hans-Kristian Kjos Sørenson (perc), 3Norwegian Radio Orchestra c. Christian Eggen. Aurora PSC 1328. - ‘momentum’: cello concertos by NØRGÅRD (No. 2, Momentum); NORDHEIM, orch. BYWALEC (Tenebrae); SAARIAHO (No. 1, Amers). Jakob Kullberg (vlc), New Music Orchestra c. Szymon Bywalec. Aurora ACD5075.
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Morton Feldman - MORTON FELDMAN: Works for violin and piano. Spring of Chosroes; Extensions 1 and 3; Vertical thoughts 2 and 4; For Aaron Copland; Piece; Projection IV; Piece for Four Pianos; For John Cage. Andreas Seidel (vln), Steffen Schleiermacher (pno). MDG 613 1524-2 (2-CD set)
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Glanville-Hicks - GLANVILLE-HICKS: Sappho, opera in 3 acts, libretto from the play by Lawrence Durrell. Deborah Polaski (Sappho), soloists, Gulbenkian Orchestra and Chorus c. Jennifer Condon. Toccata Classics TOCC 0154-55 (2-CD set).
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- 19 April 2013, pp. 94-95
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Burkhard et al. - BURKHARD: Das Gesicht Jesajas, op. 411; Das Jahr, op. 622. 1Barbara Locher (sop), 1Bernhard Hunziger (ten), 1Peter Brechbühler (bass), 1Thomas Sauer (org), 1Akademiechor Luzern, 1Domkapelle Berlin; 2Maya Boog (sop), 2Irène Friedli (con), 2Rudolf Rosen (bass), 2Basler Madrigalisten, 2Evangelische Singgemeinde Bern/Zürich, 2Knabenkantorei Luzern, 2Musikkollegium Winterthur, c. Alois Koch. Musiques Suisses MGB CD 6273 (2-CD set). - HERMANN SUTER: Symphony in D minor, op. 17. WERNER WEHRLI: Chilbizite. Aargau Symphony Orchestra, c. Douglas Bostock. Musiques Suisses MGB CD 6274. - ‘Stiller Garten – där blomsterängar stå’. Songs by FRUMERIE, WERNER WEHRLI, SCHOECK, RANGSTRÖM. Janna Vettergren (mezzo-sop), Fabienne Romer (pno). Monton Records MON 1101.
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Marc Blitzstein: His Life, His Work, His World by Howard Pollock. Oxford University Press, £39.95.
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Gerard Schurmann - GERARD SCHURMANN: Duo1; Autumn Leaves1; Leotaurus; Contrasts.1Alyssa Park (vln) with Mikhail Korzhev (pno). Toccata Classics TOCC 0133.
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Michael Blake - MICHAEL BLAKE: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2; Piano Quintet. Fitzwilliam String Quartet, Michael Blake (pno). Michael Blake Edition 002 (MBED Records, MBED 002).
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Anthony Gilbert, et al. - ANTHONY GILBERT: Little Piano Pieces; Elegy; Papillon Postcards; Sonata No.1; Sonata No.2, for piano 4 hands; Piano Sonata No.3. Richard Casey and Ian Buckle (pno). Prima Facie PFCD007. - GILBERT: Propel; Chimes in Time; Do Well. DAVID ELLIS: Seventeen or eighteen inaudible canons; Moto non perpetuo; Four Studies in six parts (‘For One Who Hears Different Colours’). PANAYIOTIS DEMOPOULOS: Several Gardens. ALEXANDER GOEHR: Nonomiya. Panayiotis Demopoulos (pno). Prima Facie PFCD013.
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The Aesthetic Life of Cyril Scott by Sarah Collins. The Boydell Press, £55.00.
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Knussen - KNUSSEN: Choral; Triptych: Autumnal; Whitman Settings; Secret Psalm; Prayer Bell Sketch; Violin Concerto; Requiem – Songs for Sue; Ophelia's Last Dance. BBCSO, BCMG c. Oliver Knussen, Alexandra Wood, Leila Josefowicz (vlns), Claire Booth (sop), Huw Watkins, Ryan Wigglesworth (pnos). NMC D178.
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Cecilia McDowall - CECILIA McDOWALL: Great Hills1; Pavane2; Theatre of Tango3; Crossing the Bridge4; Rain, Steam and Speed5; Shipping Forecast6. 1Madeleine Easton (vln), Joanna Shaw (fl), 1,2Kathryn Thomas (fl), 3Jeremy Huw Williams (bar), Tamás Kocsis (vln), 6Andrew Hobday (narr), Choir of Merton College, Oxford, 1,4,6Orchestra Nova, 2,3,5Ulster Orchestra c. George Vass. Dutton Epoch CDLX 7292.
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Hyde - HYDE: Three Dancers; Autumnal; Nocturnes; Second Suite for Solo Cello; Birthday Song; Winter Music; String Quartet. Edward Vanderspar (vla), Katherine Jenkinson (vlc), Evelina Puzaite (pno), Martin Cousin (pno), Aquinas Piano Trio, Juventus Quartet, Instrumental Ensemble c. John Traill. Guild GMCD 7389.
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Arnold Bax, et al. - The Thurston Connection: English Music for Clarinet and Piano. ARNOLD BAX: Clarinet Sonata. ROGER FISKE: Clarinet Sonata. IAIN HAMILTON: Three Nocturnes, op. 6. HUGH WOOD: Paraphrase on ‘Bird of Paradise’, op. 26. RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT: Duo Concertante. Nicholas Cox (cl), Ian Buckle (pno). British Music Society BMS 440CD.
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Pärt - PÄRT: Adam's Lament; Beatus Petronius; Salve Regina; Statuit ei Dominus; Alleluia-Tropus; L'Abbé Agathon; Estonian Lullaby; Christmas Lullaby. Latvian Radio Choir, Sinfonietta Riga, Vox Clamantis, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra c. Tõnu Kalijuste. ECM New Series 2225.
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Ronald Stevenson et al. - RONALD STEVENSON Piano Music. CD1: Prelude and Chorale; L'Art nouveau du Chant appliqué au Piano, Vols. 1 and 2; Scottish Ballad No. 1; Fugue on a Fragment of Chopin; Pensées sur des Préludes de Chopin; Variations-Study on a Chopin Waltz; Etudette d'après Korsakov et Chopin; Three Contrapuntal Studies on Chopin Waltzes; BACH-STEVENSON Komm, süsser Tod, BWV.478. CD2: Le festin d'Alkan; Norse Elegy; Canonic Caprice on The Bat; YSAŸE-STEVENSON Six Sonates pour violon seul, op. 27, Nos. 1 and 2. CD3: Melody on a Ground of Glazunov; Ricordanza di San Romerio; Little Jazz Variations on Purcell's ‘New Scotch Tune’; Two Musical Portraits; MOZART-STEVENSON Fantasia, K.608; Romance (from Piano Concerto in D minor, K.466); PURCELL-STEVENSON Three Grounds; Toccata; Hornpipe; The Queen's Dolour; BULL-STEVENSON Three Elizabethan Pieces after John Bull. Murray McLachlan (pno). Divine Art DDA 21372 (3-CD set).
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Kenneth Hesketh - KENNETH HESKETH: A Rhyme for the Season1; Ein Lichtspiel (after Moholy-Nagy)2; Graven Image1; Wunderkammer(konzert)2; At God speeded summer's end1. 1Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra c. Christoph-Mathias Mueller, 2Ensemble 10/10 c. Clark Rundell. NMC D186. - KENNETH HESKETH: De Destini Incrociati; Aphorisms; Fra Duri Scogli; Three pieces in the shape of a shoe; Theatre of Attractions. Psappha c. Nicholas Kok. Psappha B00AUKGHM0M.
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John Pickard - JOHN PICKARD: Piano Concerto1; Sea-Change2; Tenebrae3. 1Fredrik Ullén (pno), 1–3Norrköping SO c. Martyn Brabbins. BIS 1873. - PICKARD: Piano Trio1; Insomnia, for violin and piano2; Chaconne for solo viola3; Valedictions, for cello and piano4; Sonata for Violin and Piano5; Snowbound, for bass clarinet, cello and piano6. 1,3–5Rupert Marshall-Luck (vln, vla), 1,4,6Sophie Harris (vlc), 6Ian Mitchell (bcl), 1,2,4-6Matthews Richard (pno). Toccata Classics TOCC 0150. - London, Purcell Room: Pickard's String Quartet No. 5
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David Power, et al. - Songs Now: British Songs of the 21st Century. DAVID POWER: Eight Evening Songs.TOM ARMSTRONG: Opened Spaces.DAVID LANCASTER: Memory of Place.RICHARD WHALLEY: Six Songs of Old Japanese Wisdom.PETER REYNOLDS: Adieu to all Alluring Toys.STEVE CROWTHER: Songs for Don.WILLIAM RHYS MEEK: Winter is a Slow Death Waiting.MICHAEL PARKIN: Three Songs. Paul Carey Jones (bar) and Ian Ryan (pno). Meridian Records CDE 84614.
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Peter Dickinson - ‘British Song’. Songs by PETER DICKINSON, JONATHAN HARVEY, LENNOX BERKELEY, GORDON CROSSE, ELISABETH LUTYENS. Meriel Dickinson (mezzo), Peter Dickinson (pno). Heritage HTGCD 240.
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