Rameau Naissance d'Osiris - Ste. Abaris ou les Boréades - Ste.

Capella Savaria | Mary Térey-Smith

Rameau the orchestrator never disappoints so any new disc of his airs de ballet are greedily pounced upon in this...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1997

Bruch Violin Concerto; Mendelssohn Symphony No 4

Albert Sammons | Gaspar Cassadó | Hallé Orchestra | Hamilton Harty | Leslie Heward | Malcolm Sargent

With the Hallé enjoying a higher profile than for many a moon under Mark Elder’s tenure, it’s good to reminded...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 1/2005

Tchaikovsky Piano Trio in A Minor, Op 50

Gil Shaham | Smetana Trio | Truls Mørk | Yefim Bronfman

Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio is a masterpiece of the genre. The finest modern recording has been on BIS with Freddy Kempf...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/2008

Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet Suite

Mstislav Rostropovich | Washington National Symphony Orchestra

A carefully prepared performance and thoroughly attentive to details of dynamic markings and phrasing, but symphonic rather than balletic in...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 7/1983

Bruckner Masses

Alexei Shanin | Ludmila Kuznetsova | Ludmilla Golub | Russian State Symphonic Cappella | Russian State Symphony Orchestra | Stanislav Davydov | Valéry Polyansky

New recordings of Bruckner’s Masses are comparatively rare. This disc juxtaposes the early Mass in C major (he wrote it...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 3/2001

Tippett Orchestral Works

Andrew Davis | BBC Symphony Chorus | BBC Symphony Orchestra

Andrew Davis’s formidable Tippettian credentials shine through in every bar of this outstanding British Line anthology from Teldec. Aided by...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/1996

Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet Suites

Mariss Jansons | Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra

This is not the first version of the two orchestral suites drawn from the Romeo and Juliet ballet where balletic...

Reviewed in issue 5/1989

Dance

It would be bad form in this day and age to wonder what kind of dancing might go on to...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 06/2011

Brahms/Dvorák Orchestral Works

John Eliot Gardiner | North German Radio Symphony Orchestra

If this seems an odd mixture of works for John Eliot Gardiner's first recording as chief conductor of the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1993

Slavic Opera Arias

Krassimira Stoyanova | Munich Radio Orchestra | Pavel Baleff

Stoyanova’s second recital disc for Orfeo lies more on the soprano’s ‘home’ territory and includes two arias by fellow Bulgarian...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2012