Myaskovsky Symphonic Works

Even if you invested in Warner’s boxed Myaskovsky edition, a surprise Award-winner last year, there are grounds for exploring these...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 5/2010

Respighi Symphonic Poems

Philadelphia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti

Muti's red-blooded, Italianate performances, culminating in a riotously 'over-the-top' performance of Roman Festivals (last-composed and last on the disc), are...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1986

Prokofiev - 50th Anniversary Edition

(Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | Adrianne Pieczonka | Afro Poli | Aileen Davies | Alain Lombard | Alan Ewing | Aleksandra Zamojska | Aleksei Sultanov | Alexander Peregudov | Alexandr Morozov

Record companies and book publishers are vying to mark the 50th anniversary of Prokofiev’s death in the appropriate style. But...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 6/2003

Eileen Joyce

Eileen Joyce

Tasmanian-born Eileen Joyce (1912-91) was a pianist of unique charisma whose radiance and volatility held her vast audiences transfixed until...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/1994

(The) Symphonic Swedish Organ

Anders Johnsson

Never mind that few of the composers represented here will be generally familiar to organ lovers outside Sweden, I can...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 7/2010

PANUFNIK Symphonic Works Vol 4

Berlin Concert House Orchestra | Lukasz Borowicz

How come Andrzej Panufnik’s Sinfonia elegiaca and Sinfonia sacra feel emotionally and intellectually satisfying while his Symphony No 10 doesn’t...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 03/2012

Elisabeth Södestrom

Elisabeth Söderström | Martin Isepp | Roger Vignoles

With more than 12 years between the two recitals, one may be inclined to suppose that this gives a broader...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 13/2003

Oleg Maisenberg - Live at the Vienna Konzerthaus

Oleg Maisenberg

During the 1994-95 concert season in Vienna Oleg Maisenberg performed a cycle of 12 piano recitals. Each evening was devoted...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

A Tale of Two Cellos

Jiaxin Lloyd Webber

This is expressly a CD for those who enjoy a pair of cellos, beautifully played and blended together in slow...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2013

Chadwick Symphony No 2; Symphonic Sketches

Theodore Kuchar | Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra

When Leonard Bernstein famously proclaimed George Whitefield Chadwick (1854-1931) as ‘the kindergarten period of American music’it was more likely Bernstein...

Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 7/2005