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Why is there such fierce resistance to the music of Birtwistle? He does seem to be the composer many British music-lovers love to hate - and pet hates are the hardest of all to crack. Still, I can see why there could be difficulties for some. We in the West are used to approaching music...

Teldec ® fD 4509-94556-2 (55 minutes: DDD). Recorded at a performance in the Philharmonic, Berlin during May 1994.

Debussy (orch. Caplet) Children's Corner. Pagodes. Suite bergamasque - Clair de lune. Rheinland-Pfalz State Philharmonic Orchestra / Leif Segerstam.

"Carlos Chavez Chamber Works" says the back cover of the booklet — an accurate enough title, certainly, but hardly indicative of the tonal perspectives and exotic colours featured on the disc. In fact, a number of percussion instruments were built especially for this recording, having been...

The name of Ingolf Dahl ()912-70) will, I suspect, be unfamiliar to the vast majority of readers (it certainly was to me), so a spot of background information is in order. Born in Hamburg of Swedish parentage, Dahl studied first at the Cologne Hochschule für Musik and then at the Zurich...