Haydn The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross

(Father) Roman Bannwart | Carmina Qt | Schola Romana Lucernensis

Haydn’s Seven Last Words was designed for performance in Holy Week, in the Santa Cueva grotto in Cadiz, with discourses...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 7/2000

Schnittke Symphony 7 & Cello Concerto 1

Alexander Ivashkin | Russian State Symphony Orchestra | Valéry Polyansky

After his catastrophic stroke in the summer of 1985 Alfred Schnittke’s music changed radically, becoming violently expressionistic and often brutally...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/2000

Pablo/Dvorak Orchestral Works

This disc, together with the Tomas Marco issue (see page 57), is the second of Col Legno's releases featuring contemporary...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 7/1992

Fox Piano Music

Ian Pace

Christopher Fox merges often complex technical procedures into sensuous streams of sound that beguile as well as fascinate the ear....

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 2/1999

Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande

Charles Dutoit | Claudine Carlson | Colette Alliot-Lugaz | Didier Henry | Françoise Golfier | Gilles Cachemaille | Montreal Symphony Orchestra | Montreal Symphony Orchestra Chorus | Phillip Ens | Pierre Thau

Charles Dutoit may protest that opera ''isn't really my department'' (see page 1640), but this Pelleas of his is certainly...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 3/1991

Works for Guitar and Orchestra

Andrew Litton | London Mozart Players | Nicola Hall

''Nicola plays Nicolo''—the tag has been virtuously resisted, but Nicola Hall brings virtuosity to her transcription of the Second Violin...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 3/1994

Debussy Piano Works Vol.5

A statue that moves, a girl dancing herself to death, balletic tennis players and a lovestruck cardboard soldier all rub...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2010

Boulez Piano Sonatas

Idil Biret

It sometimes seems as if Pierre Boulez has spent a lifetime paying the penalty for having found composition so easy...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/1995

Arie Amorose

Juha Kangas | Monica Groop | Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra

‘Arie Amorose’ was the title of a lovely album recorded by Janet Baker with the Academy of St Martin in...

Reviewed in issue 6/2001

Janácek String Quartets Nos 1 and 2

Andrew Haveron | Brodsky Quartet | Jacqueline Thomas | Martin Cousin

Janacek’s quartets are now a regular pairing, with at least 10 performances currently available in various versions and varying degrees...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/2006