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Schubert/Liszt Wanderer Fantasy
Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra | Elisabeth Westenholz | Kees Bakels
A plausible programme let down by Westenholz’s often straitjacketed playing and a two-dimensional recording. The closing fugato passages in the...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 13/1998
Mahler Symphony No 9; Das Lied von der Erde
(Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | Bernard Haitink | James King | Janet Baker
Haitink’s Amsterdam Mahler at its best – freshly voiced, unostentatiously passionate and superbly played, with a near incomparable lucidity resulting...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 4/1999
Moyzes Complete Solo Piano Music
Anthony Goldstone | Caroline Clemmow
Alexander Moyzes (1906-84) was one of the most important composers of the Slovak school, best known for his 12 symphonies...
Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 5/1997
Handel Messiah - Highlights
The cumulative effect of this CD's many virtues makes it a highly desirable addition to anyone's collection, even where another...
Reviewed in issue 12/1984
Claudio Arrau The Final Sessions, Vol.4
Even if these readings had been first-rate, I would have advised the prospective buyer to beware: there are only four...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 8/1993
Dohnányi/Bartók Second Violin Concertos
Barcelona Symphony Orchestra | Lawrence Foster | Mark Kaplan
Dohnanyi’s immensely likeable Second Violin Concerto nails its wide roster of colours to the mast with “a declamatory sequence of...
Reviewed in issue 9/1997
Xenia Belmas (1890-1981) - I
(Anonymous) Orchestra | Alexander Kitschin | Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender | Xenia Belmas
Listening to singers is sometimes like watching a horror movie where the heroine insists on walking down stairs that obviously...
Reviewed in issue 10/1992
Lindberg, M Clarinet Concerto; Gran Duo; Chorale
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Kari Kriikku | Sakari Oramo
The clarinet has featured prominently as a solo instrument in Magnus Lindberg’s output throughout his career, though it was only...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2005
Klemperer in Los Angeles
Kolisch Quartet | Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra | Otto Klemperer
In the normal course of things, a set of recordings as technically wretched as these would be more or less...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/1997
Gade Piano Works, Vol. 2
The Danish label Kontrapunkt are to be commended for their sustained enterprise in recording the music of Niels Gade. In...
Reviewed in issue 5/1993
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