Mozart: Symphonies

Academy of St Martin in the Fields | Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Daniel Barenboim | English Chamber Orchestra | Herbert von Karajan | Jeffrey Tate | Neville Marriner | New Philharmonia Orchestra | Otto Klemperer | Philharmonia Orchestra

As I said last month, when reviewing the concert and chamber music sets in this special EMI Mozart Edition, the...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 4/1991

Beethoven Violin Concerto; Violin Sonata No 9

Alexander Melnikov | Isabelle Faust | Jirí Belohlávek | Martha Argerich | Prague Philharmonia | Riccardo Muti | Vadim Repin | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

A fascinating study in comparisons, and an auspicious DG debut for Vadim Repin and Riccardo Muti. Muti’s conducting of the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2007

Alfred Brendel Edition, Box 1

Academy of St Martin in the Fields | Alfred Brendel | Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Bernard Haitink | Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Claudio Abbado | Heinz Holliger | Imogen Cooper | James Levine | London Philharmonic Orchestra

For his sixty-fifth birthday Philips present Alfred Brendel – the finest scholar-pianist of our time – with a 25-disc tribute...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/1996

Mozart: Concertos

Academy of St Martin in the Fields | André Previn | Anne-Sophie Mutter | Augustin Dumay | Barry Tuckwell | Bath Festival Orchestra | Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Christian Zacharias | Daniel Barenboim | David Oistrakh

The first thing one notices about this issue is that it doesn't look as if it can be of four...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 3/1991

The Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra Collection

Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra | Yannick Nézet-Séguin

There’s definitely something to be said for having a musician select a personal choice of favourites among his or her...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW18

Twentieth-Century Orchestral Works

André Richard | Bamberg Symphony Orchestra | Benjamin Hudson | Christian Dierstein | Cornelia Kallisch | Dennis Russell Davies | Eirian Davis | Fabian Menzel | Hans Zender | Heinz Holliger

In terms of 'art music' alone, the 20th century offers a range of possibilities that would be difficult to encapsulate...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 4/2000

SORABJI Sequentia Cyclica

‘Because it’s there’ was George Mallory’s response as to why he was climbing Everest, yet it might equally apply to...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2020

50 Years of the Holland Festival

(John) Alldis Choir | (Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | (The) Hague Residentie Orchestra | Alessandra Marc | Amsterdam Wind Orchestra | Anna Larsson | Asko Ensemble | Barry McDaniel | Benjamin Britten | Bernard Kruysen

Readers who recall broadcasting in the late-1940s and early-1950s will have reason to thank the Holland Festival for many memorable...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 10/1997

Martha Argerich Collection

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Charles Dutoit | Claudio Abbado | Edgar Guggeis | Giuseppe Sinopoli | London Symphony Orchestra | Martha Argerich | Mstislav Rostropovich | Nelson Freire | Nicholas Economou

DG’s “Martha Argerich Collection” consolidates and confirms (if confirmation were necessary) our sense of a unique vision and virtuosity. Here,...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/1997

Great Sopranos of Our Time

Carlo Maria Giulini | Edita Gruberová | Elisabeth Schwarzkopf | Georges Prêtre | Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra | Gustav Kuhn | Ileana Cotrubas | Joan Sutherland | John Barbirolli | Karl Böhm

Scotto opens, not putting her best note forward at the start of ''Un bel di'' but availing herself of the...

Reviewed in issue 11/1986