Godowsky Strauss Transcriptions and other Waltzes

The multi-levelled labyrinths of Leopold Godowsky’s piano-writing have long been second nature to Marc-André Hamelin. Listeners familiar with earlier Hamelin...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 9/2008

Ravel/Gershwin Piano Concertos

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra | David Zinman | Hélène Grimaud

This is a logical and satisfying coupling, and it is surprising that it hasn’t been recorded more often. Both the...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 3/1998

Rebel; Vivaldi - 4 Elements-4 Seasons

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin | Clemens-Maria Nuszbaumer | Georg Kallweit | Midori Seiler

There are two ways to approach this film: dismiss it as risible and pretentious or surrender to its originality and...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2009

Steinberg Orchestral Works

Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi

Maximilian Oseyevich Steinberg (1883-1946) is most familiar these days as a footnote to other careers. He was a near-contemporary of...

Reviewed in issue 11/1999

Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice

Charles Mackerras | Hanny Steffek | Maureen Forrester | Teresa Stich-Randall | Vienna Academy Choir | Vienna State Opera Orchestra

This recording was reckoned, in its day, as something of a pioneering one. In the mid-1960s performances of Gluck's Orfeo...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 12/1992

American piano music for four hands

Donn-Alexandre Feder | Elisha Gilgore

The duo-piano medium regularly promises more than it delivers—twice the number of fingers does not make for double the excitement....

Reviewed in issue 3/1987

Strauss, R Josephs Legende, Op 63. Schlagobers, Op 70

Bamberg Symphony Orchestra | Karl Anton Rickenbacher

Although they are now almost never played‚ no one can say that Strauss’s two ballets weren’t given every chance. Josephslegende...

Reviewed in issue 12/2001

Tom Poster: In Dance and Song

This lovingly chosen recital – striking in both choice and performance – celebrates dance and song, key aspects of music...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 04/2014

Glazunov Symphony No 2

BBC National Orchestra of Wales | Tadaaki Otaka

Glazunov’s symphonies are not easy to bring off in the studio. But Tadaaki Otaka has the full measure of No...

Reviewed in issue 10/2002

DVOŘÁK Rusalka (Bychkov)

Aleksei Isaev | Asmik Grigorian | David Butt Philip | Emma Bell | Gabrielė Kupšytė | Hongni Wu | Josef Jeongmeen Ahn | Ross Ramgobin | Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden | Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden

This is the second DVD of Rusalka in three years to feature Asmik Grigorian in the title-role, and in many...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2024