Popov Symphonic Suite No 1; Symphony No 5

Alexander Polyakov | Edvard Chivzhel | Gurgen Karapetian | Moscow Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra | Rimma Glushkova | USSR State Symphony Orchestra

The third of Olympia’s Popov issues confirms the strong impressions already established (2/96 and 7/96). Gavriil Popov (1904-72) is the...

Reviewed in issue 8/1997

Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Josef & Rosina Lhévinne

Jean-Paul Morel | John Barnett | Josef Lhévinne | Juilliard Orchestra | National Orchestral Association | Rosina Lhévinne

These discs celebrate both an incomparable partnership and two Moscow Gold Medallists who achieved a legendary status in their separate...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/1998

Austin; Bainton; Bowen British Symphonic Collection, Vol 10

Douglas Bostock | Royal Northern College of Music Symphony Orchestra

With first-rate collections of piano music and chamber works already adorning the catalogue, the York Bowen mini-revival continues apace with...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2002

Harvey, J (The) Angels; Ashes Dances Back; Marahi

Choral music has been a constant in Jonathan Harvey’s output, ranging from the directness of his anthems to the complexity...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 7/2011

COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Fantasiestücke DVOŘÁK String Quartet Op 106

Takács Quartet

The Takács Quartet’s reputation precedes them. Gramophone Award-winners, resident at London’s Southbank Centre, the University of Colorado Boulder and now...

Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: 09/2023

SINOPOLI Edition Staatskapelle Dresden, Vol 35

Staatskapelle Dresden | Sylvain Cambreling

Until a heart attack felled him in 2001, Giuseppe Sinopoli had been a loving and assiduous curator of the ‘Dresden...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2016

Dvorak Symphonies Nos 7 & 8

Charles Mackerras | Marek Stryncl | Musica Florea | Philharmonia Orchestra

Sir Charles Mackerras himself provides potent rivalry in the form of a Classics for Pleasure double-pack where all three late...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 4/2010

Airs and Dances of Shakespeare's Time

Christian Mendoze | John Elwes | Stephen Stubbs | Toulon Musica Antiqua

This territory has already been explored many times but it is a rich one, wide open to further well conducted...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 9/1993

Anna Prohaska: Behind the Lines

Anna Prohaska | Eric Schneider

Not since Simon Keenlyside’s Gramophone Award-winning ‘Songs of War’ (Sony, 2/12) have pre-existing art songs been so effectively moulded into...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW2014

Annie Fischer - A profile

Annie Fischer | Artur Rodzinski | Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Carlo Maria Giulini | Giusto Cappone | Igor Markevitch | János Starker | London Symphony Orchestra | Lovro von Matacic | Milan La Scala Orchestra

More old friends neatly and economically packaged, although one’s gratitude is at least partially compromised by the fact that most...

Reviewed in issue 9/1996