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Debussy Piano Works, Volume 2
Hard on the heels of the useful first volume in this Franco-American pianist’s Debussy series (1/96) comes this second, in...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 4/1996
Mahler Lieder
These are two discs of exceptionally good Mahler singing by two young artists. Andreas Schmidt studied with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and...
Reviewed in issue 5/1992
Karin Dornbusch - Nordic Clarinet Concertos
Gävle Symphony Orchestra | Karin Dornbusch | Petri Sakari
Nielsen’s Clarinet Concerto, his good-natured, warts-and-all portrait of Aage Oxenvad (clarinettist at the Wind Quintet’s premiere), has only slowly risen...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 6/2006
Tchaikovsky Orchestral Works
Tchaikovsky’s Voyevoda is a little-known and underrated piece – even by the composer, who fell out of love with it...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/1997
Prokofiev Eugene Onegin; Hamlet
Prokofiev recycled much of the material intended for his Eugene Onegin ‘melodrama’, which can make listening to the suite assembled...
Reviewed in issue 4/1999
Vaughan Williams (The) Wasps
Hallé Choir | Hallé Orchestra | Henry Goodman | Mark Elder
Vaughan Williams was a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, so it was with particular relish that in 1909 he accepted...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/2006
Holst (The) Planets
Colin Davis | London Symphony Orchestra
Here’s an efficient, rather hard-hearted Planets that for once finds Sir Colin and the LSO not quite at the peak...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/2003
Vivaldi Concertos for Cello; Concerto for Violin and Cello
Christine Busch | Ensemble Explorations | Richte van der Meer | Roel Dieltiens
Only some force majeure could have diverted my rapt attention from beginning to end of this disc. Roel Dieltiens is...
Reviewed in issue 5/2002
Massenet Hérodiade
As Sony’s recording team were packing away their master tapes in San Francisco, the EMI engineers were setting out their...
Reviewed in issue 2/1996
Ireland Orchestral Works
New recordings of such strongly appealing repertoire are always welcome, especially when they demonstrate such palpable conviction, joyous sense of...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2010
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