Crossover Today

(The) Flesh Quartet | (The) G-Strings | Ahn Trio | Berliner Cellharmoniker | Claude Chalhoub | Ernst Reijseger | Modern String Quartet | Mola Sylla | String Thing | Triology

Apparently the Strings of Fire Festival, where these CDs were recorded, was acclaimed as ‘a conceptual adventure from which the...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 9/2004

Wagner - Knappertsbusch's Legendary London Recordings

The Prelude to Die Meistersinger from this 1959 concert is apparently new to CD (having once appeared on a Music...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 7/2010

Schubert Octet; Adagio & Rondo concertante

Melos Ensemble

In 1967 EMI's engineers gave the Melos Ensemble a fairly close, rather artificial studio balance to solve the usual problems...

Reviewed in issue 9/1988

Scriabin Le poème de l'extase; Piano Concerto; Prométhée

Anatol Ugorski | Chicago Symphony Chorus | Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Pierre Boulez

Had you presented me with this programme on paper, I would hardly have guessed that the Piano Concerto would come...

Reviewed in issue 8/1999

Grieg Orchestral Works

Einar Steen Nökleberg | London Symphony Orchestra | Per Dreier

There are 19 versions of this concerto in the current Gramophone Classical Catalogue and they include some of the world's...

Reviewed in issue 3/1984

Dowland Consort Music and Songs

Catherine King | Jacob Heringman | Rose Consort of Viols

The final 14 items in Dowland’s Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares have been presented in a variety of ways in integral...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/1997

Music for the Courts of Europe

(Philip) Jones Brass Ensemble

The majestic sound of assembled brass is well suited to the music of Henry VIII, a monarch of majestic proportions,...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 7/1988

Kurtág (Die) Sieben Worte; Messiaen Visions de l'Amen

Andreas Grau | Götz Schumacher

Messiaen’s two-piano cycle Visions de l’Amen hardly lacks for first-rate recordings, yet there’s always room for a strong new contender....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 4/2006

From Jewish Life - Works for Cello & Piano

John Lenehan | Paul Marleyn

Although it takes in a wide range of Jewish repertoire, composed and traditional, this collection centres on the more familiar...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/2004

50 Years of the Holland Festival

(John) Alldis Choir | (Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | (The) Hague Residentie Orchestra | Alessandra Marc | Amsterdam Wind Orchestra | Anna Larsson | Asko Ensemble | Barry McDaniel | Benjamin Britten | Bernard Kruysen

Readers who recall broadcasting in the late-1940s and early-1950s will have reason to thank the Holland Festival for many memorable...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 10/1997