Here are a couple of reviews from Otago Daily Times by Geoff Adams on SCHOENBERG, A.: Pelleas und Melisande / Erwartung and Guitar Recital: Aguirre, Rafael

The polyphonic tone poem Pelleas und Melisande Op.5 provoked audience riots in 1905…

… A very large orchestra builds complex layers of dark and sombre sound…

… The Spanish virtuoso presents a widely varied programme by eight cosmopolitan composers…

… The recital ends with Variations on Carnival of Venice (the melody made famous by Paganini)…

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On March 25, Naxos releases the latest recording of works by Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara, featuring the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and its dynamic young Music Director Pietari Inkinen. The three works featured— Apotheosis; Manhattan Trilogy; and Symphony No. 8 (Naxos 8570069)—are indicative of the direction that Rautavaara’s orchestral music has taken during the last decade.

Apotheosis (1996) is a revision of the final movement from Rautavaara’s Sixth Symphony
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