Caprices and Laments (Maximiliano Martín)

Lucas Macías Navarro | Maximiliano Martín | Tenerife Symphony Orchestra

‘He has a temper, a primitive force harsh and clumsy, with a smattering of blue-eyed Danish amenity.’ So wrote a...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2021

The Sixteen: An Enduring Voice

(The) Sixteen | Harry Christophers

In addition to accompanying their 2019 Choral Pilgrimage, The Sixteen’s latest disc also serves as a celebration of the choir’s...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 06/2019

Beethoven; Mozart; Webern String Quartets

In 2011 the Hagen Quartet celebrate their 30th anniversary. In an interview documented with this 2010 recording they tell us...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/2011

Contemporary Works

Claudio Abbado | Vienna Jeunesse Choir | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

The concert at which these performances were recorded was part of the 1988 Wien Modern Festival, and although the composers...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/1990

GREGSON Dream Song. Horn Concerto. Aztec Dances

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | Richard Watkins

Edward Gregson has a formidable standing as a brass band composer, and his links with that world are writ large...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2014

ANDERSON Heaven is Shy of Earth; The Comedy of Change

BBC Symphony Chorus | BBC Symphony Orchestra | London Sinfonietta | Susan Bickley

This excellent CD fills significant gaps in the Anderson discography. At the same time it reminds us of the huge...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2018

Fierce Tears

Claire Jones | Huw Watkins | James Turnbull

New music for oboe has not been lacking in Britain over the past three decades and James Turnbull’s recital makes...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 11/2011

Allegri's Miserere and the Music of Rome

(The) Cardinall's Musick | Andrew Carwood

Following their Gramophone Recording of the Year Award for 2010, Andrew Carwood and Hyperion have risked all to record a...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 3/2011

Strings and Isobars

Dina Vainshtein | Yuko Uchiyama

Currently a member of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Yuko Uchiyama sets out her undoubted solo credentials in the present recital....

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 8/2010

Berg Wozzeck;Schoenberg Erwartung

Aage Haugland | Albert Weikenmeier | Alexander Malta | Anja Silja | Anna Gonda | Christoph von Dohnányi | Claudio Abbado | Doris Lamprecht | Eberhard Waechter | Franz Grundheber

The first ever recording of Wozzeck was made at a couple of concert performances in New York conducted by Dmitri...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/1989