Into the Light

(The) Sixteen | Harry Christophers | Kaori Muraji

It takes skill to do simple things well, but also perhaps a certain artlessness, and in this respect the exquisitely...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 13/2007

Fornerod Choral, Symphonic and Instrumental Works

Abbé Pierre Kaelin | Andre Charlet | André Vessières | Armin Jordan | Arpad Gerecz | Charles Jauquier | Choeur des Jeunes l'Église National Vaudoise | Chœur symphonique de la Cathédrale | Christian Favre | Ensemble Vocal du Puy de musique de St-Sulpice

Fornerod was a teacher‚ theorist‚ musicologist‚ choir trainer‚ lecturer‚ critic for the Tribune de Lausanne and‚ from 1954 to 1965‚...

Reviewed in issue 3/2002

Rarities of Piano Music at Schloss vor Husum

Artem Yasynskyy | Duo Grau Schumacher | Duo Mercier Katsaris | Florian Noack | Hubert Rutkowski | Johann Blanchard | Joseph Moog | Martin Jones | Severin von Eckardstein | Simon Callaghan

Danacord’s annual selection of highlights from the previous year’s Husum Festival represents, on this occasion, something of a milestone. The 2016...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2017

Adams Gnarly Buttons; John's Book of Alleged Dances

John Adams | Kronos Qt | London Sinfonietta | Michael Collins

Anyone who suspects that Cage’s prepared piano was a period cul-de-sac should hear the way John Adams works it into...

Reviewed in issue 8/1998

Josef Lhévinne The Complete Recordings

Josef Lhévinne | Rosina Lhévinne

To have all Lhevinne's recordings reissued on one CD is marvellous in a way, but we are thus made aware...

Reviewed in issue 12/1989

Falla: Vocal & Orchestral Works

Aldo Ciccolini | Alicia de Larrocha | Carlo Maria Giulini | Enrique Bátiz | Ernest Ansermet | Gonzalo Soriano | London Philharmonic Orchestra | London Symphony Orchestra | Paris Conservatoire Orchestra | Philharmonia Orchestra

Anyone who has ever visited the unforgettably beautiful Moorish gardens, dominated by fountains, of the Palace built on the hills...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1989

Tchaikovsky Fantasy

Katia Labèque | Marielle Labèque

It is a pity that this interesting and brilliantly played collection was programmed to open with Tchaikovsky's own four-handed piano...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1995

Rachmaninov Piano Recital

Andreas (still in his twenties) is the son of the long renowned Ernst Haefliger. Though he has already recorded some...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 10/1992

Chaliapin Edition: 1913-21 Song Repertoire

(Anonymous) Orchestra | Feodor Chaliapin | Max Rabinovich | Percy Pitt | St Petersburg Quartet

With this fourth volume comes the first sure recommendation. Its predecessors in the series have been valuable because of the...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/2002

Liadov Three Symphonic Sketches; Russian Folksongs

Leonid Nikolaiev | Moscow Academy of Choral Singing | Moscow Conservatory Symphony Orchestra | Victor Popov

Liadov’s musical output was slender, simply because (like a musical version of Goncharov’s Oblomov) he was too idle to get...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1997