Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky

BBC Symphony Orchestra | Igor Stravinsky

The sheer energy of this 1958 Festival Hall all- Stravinsky concert is enough to carry you along, just about –...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 5/2009

Bloch America; Concerto Grosso No 1

Gerard Schwarz | Patricia Michaelian | Seattle Symphony Chorale | Seattle Symphony Orchestra

Ernest Bloch's ''Epic Rhapsody for Orchestra'' America is a warming musical flight across the history of the United States, and...

Reviewed in issue 8/1994

Tomkins The Third Service and Anthems

David Burchell | Edward Higginbottom | New College Choir, Oxford

This well-balanced programme of sacred music by Thomas Tomkins is a worthy addition to the distinguished series of recordings already...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 9/1994

Cage Solo Prepared Piano Music

Gérard Fremy

This CD easily accommodates what was originally spread (extravagantly) over four LP sides. Fremy's performance stands up well to the...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/1988

Ravel: Orchestral Works, Vol.1

So far the French have been remarkably self-restrained about responding to the implied challenge in EG'S much-quoted remark about the...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1988

Mary's Music

Scottish Early Music Consort | Warwick Edwards

Full marks to the Scottish Early Music Consort for devising this attractively varied and original programme. Although few of the...

Reviewed in issue 4/1985

Martha Argerich plays Chopin

Martha Argerich

Argerich first came to international prominence in 1965 when she won the Chopin Competition. The first track on this CD...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 7/2010

Martinu The Greek Passion

Arthur Davies | Brno State Philharmonic Orchestra | Catherine Savory | Charles Mackerras | Czech Philharmonic Chorus | David Gwynne | Geoffrey Moses | Helen Field | Jana Jonásová | Jeffrey Lawton

No, not a great opera, not even Martinu's finest, but it contains moments, pages, whole scenes of such archetypal Martinu...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1991

Mozart Works for Flute & Orchestra

Chamber Orchestra of Europe | James Galway | Marisa Robles

The first work here is Mozart's 'Second' Flute Concerto, a 1778 reworking in D major of an Oboe Concerto in...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1989

Chopin Piano Works, Vol. 8

Vladimir Ashkenazy

One has the impression that the nuances of Ashkenazy's beautifully spontaneous performance of the Impromptu, Op. 29 are experienced just...

Reviewed in issue 7/1984