Respighi Ancient Airs and Dances

Antál Dorati | Philharmonia Hungarica

Why, you might wonder, bother to transfer to CD a 1958 recording of these charming and unpretentious suites, hardly ranking...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1987

Nyman The Piano Concerto & Where the Bee Dances

John Lenehan | Simon Haram | Takuo Yuasa | Ulster Orchestra

This isn’t the best recording of The Piano Concerto. Despite the fact that, for me at least, John Lenehan has...

Reviewed by rthomas in issue: 10/1998

Symphonic Brotherhood-Afro American Composers

This is an important release due to the first appearance on record of the 11th of Roy Harris’s 13 symphonies....

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2009

Skalkottas (36) Greek Dances; (The) Return of Ulysses

BBC Symphony Orchestra | Nikos Christodoulou

The (one hopes) eventually comprehensive survey of Nikos Skalkottas on BIS has now arrived at a work central to his...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 8/2003

Divas in Song Marilyn Horne's 60th Birthday

Frederica von Stade | Helen Donath | James Levine | Klaus Donath | Manuel Burgueras | Marilyn Horne | Martin Katz | Montserrat Caballé | Olafur Bjarnason | Renée Fleming

On January 16th, 1994, Marilyn Horne celebrated her sixtieth birthday, and I am sure that, if they had known about...

Reviewed in issue 1/1995

Russian Piano Works

Margaret Fingerhut

This is a very distinguished debut recording. Margaret Fingerhut rises to every change of mood in these short pieces. Her...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 8/1986

Lorin Maazel Virtuoso Violin

Barton Weber | Lorin Maazel

Wit, drive, intelligence, a sense of colour and the technical facility to combine all four constitute the very essence of...

Reviewed in issue 6/1996

Peter Schat The Heavens, Twelve Symphonic Variations, Op 37

(Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | Riccardo Chailly

Peter Schat (b. 1935) is one of the foremost living Dutch composers. If his name is at all familiar outside...

Reviewed in issue 7/1994

James Rhodes: 5; Piano Man

James Rhodes

Behind pianist James Rhodes’s punk-rock persona and harrowing back story lies a sincere, communicative and mindful musician. He always holds...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2014

Karlowicz Symphonic Poems Vol 1

Antoni Wit | Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra

I suppose there is no harm in having a good bargain-price version available if it means that these fine examples...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2008