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Nadine Sierra: There's A Place For Us
Nadine Sierra | Robert Spano | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Why does everything nowadays have to be marketed with an angle, a message? There are no more recital discs, just...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2018
Vivaldi Gloria; Bach Magnificat
This new issue from Telarc couples two of the most popular baroque choral works, Vivaldi's Gloria (RV589) and Bach's Magnificat...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1989
Debussy Piano Works, Vol. 2
Gordon Fergus-Thompson | Mitsuko Uchida
The appeal of Debussy's Etudes to composers and to discerning performers has never been in doubt. Boulez and Barraque are...
Reviewed in issue 7/1990
Saeverud Orchestral Music, Vol 6
Gordon Hunt | Ole Kristian Ruud | Stavanger Symphony Orchestra
The real subtitle of the Fifth Symphony (1940-41) was ‘Symphony of Resistance’ but as Norway was under German occupation at...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 4/2004
Holmboe Concertos for Piano, Clarinet and Oboe
A word about nomenclature. Holmboe composed 13 chamber concertos between 1939 and 1956 as a series with small-orchestral accompaniment, similar...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 4/2005
Puccini Orchestral Excerpts
Jacek Kaspszyk | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
The main point of listening to the very early Capriccio sinfonico is for the shock of hearing in its main...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1991
Handel Water & Fireworks Music
(The) English Concert | London Classical Players | Roger Norrington | Trevor Pinnock
Virgin’s new Water Music recording breaks down the now customary division into three ‘suites’, in F, D and G, that...
Reviewed in issue 1/1998
Crosse Orchestral & Vocal Works
Alexander Baillie | BBC Symphony Orchestra | Martyn Brabbins | Susan Bickley
Crosse, who achieved prominence with works such as Purgatory, Changes and The Story of Vasco and Ariadne, has suffered unaccountable...
Reviewed by mharry in issue: 13/1999
Rossini Il turco in Italia
The Poet Prosdocimo writes: “Is it not enough that I cudgelled my brains to concoct for Mr Rossini this charming...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/1998
English Recorder Music
Carl Dolmetsch (1911-97) not only pioneered the return of the recorder to the London concert scene, but did his utmost...
Reviewed in issue 6/2001
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