Bowen Piano Concertos Nos 2 and 3; Symphonic Fantasia

BBC Concert Orchestra | Michael Dussek | Vernon Handley

After their York Bowen disc of the First Piano Concerto and Violin Concerto, Dutton follow with the Second and Third...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2007

Shura Cherkassky (1909-1995)

Shura Cherkassky

How one misses music's most mercurial pianist and genius! Life without Cherkassky is not the same, but the memories remain....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/2000

Bax Tintagel; Rachmaninov Symphony No 3

I hold extremely happy memories of attending this December 2007 RFH concert, so it was even more of a pleasure...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/2009

Kabalevsky Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 4; Symphony No 2

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | Kathryn Stott | Neeme Järvi

As the work of a 24-year-old seeking to make his mark, Kabalevsky's First Piano Concerto is unsurprisingly replete with references...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 1/2007

Schubert Piano Sonatas D664 & D537; German Dances

Mitsuko Uchida

When we come to look back over it, agreement will be widespread, I’ve no doubt, that Uchida’s has amounted to...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 1/2003

Borodin Symphony No. 2: Prince Igor - excs

Enrique Bátiz | Mexico State Symphony Orchestra

Borodin (often as scored by other hands, it is true) usually gives every opportunity for a fine orchestra to declare...

Reviewed in issue 5/1985

Stokowski Symphonic Bach, Vol 2

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | Matthias Bamert

Here, even more than in his first collection (3/94), Matthias Bamert makes one realise that Stokowski’s Bach orchestrations are far...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/2005

Women at the Piano

Aline van Barentzen | Eileen Joyce | Emma Boynet | Gaby Casadesus | Guiomar Novaes | Hilde Somer | Iris Loveridge | Jeanne Behrend | Jeanne-Marie Darré | Lucette Descaves

‘Women at the Piano’ is launched with a poetic fanfare from Schiller: ‘Honour to women! to them is given /...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/2006

Kodály Háry János - Suite; Dances of Galánta

Budapest Children's Choir Magnificat | Budapest Festival Orchestra | Kecskemét Chlidren's Choir Miraculum

Comparative listening has rarely been more pleasurable, and I can report straight away that Ivan Fischer and his Hungarian band...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/1999

Schumann Piano Sonata No. 3; Symphonic Etudes

Andrea Kauten

Without telling tales out of school I should say that I recently received a note from Andrea Kauten’s executive producer...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/2009