Holliger Violin Concerto; Ysaÿe Ballade

Heinz Holliger | South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Baden-Baden and Freiburg | Thomas Zehetmair

During 1993-95 Heinz Holliger composed a three-movement Violin Concerto lasting about half an hour. Shortly before this recording was made,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/2004

(The) Winchester Tradition

Malcolm Archer | Paul Provost | Winchester College Chapel Choir

Although Winchester College was established at the end of the 14th century, it has only blossomed musically comparatively recently, when...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2010

Tomorrow Never Dies Original Soundtrack

(Anonymous) Orchestra | Aimee Mann | Chrissie Hynde | David Arnold | David McAlmont | Iggy Pop | Leftfield | LTJ Bukem | Martin Fry | Natacha Atlas

At last, the producers of the James Bond series have found a composer who understands the relationship between the films...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Bach Cantatas, Vol 48

Bach Collegium Japan | Hana Blazikovà | Masaaki Suzuki | Peter Kooij | Robin Blaze | Satoshi Mizukoshi

Dating cantatas from Bach’s later years remains an indeterminate business, not least because their creation played a rather more occasional...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 8/2011

Schumann Piano Works

Carlo Maria Giulini | Evgeny Kissin | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

The Concerto was recorded live in a series of concerts in May last year at the Vienna Musikverein, while the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1993

Strauss Ariadne auf Naxos

Allan Glassman | Anthony Laciura | Artur Korn | Barbara Bonney | Brian Large | Dawn Upshaw | Franz Ferdinand Nentwig | Gweneth Bean | James King | James Levine

‘Museum opera’, the insult trendy producers commonly fling at any dramatically comprehensible staging, is oddly appropriate here, because this is...

Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 11/2002

Ravel Concertos for Piano; Alborada del Gracioso

Euskadi Symphony Orchestra | Gilbert Varga | Joaquin Achuccaro

The slow movement of the G major Concerto looks on the surface as though it might carry the sort of...

Reviewed in issue 4/2002

Rubbra Viola and Violin Concertos

Rivka Golani | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Tasmin Little | Vernon Handley

In one sense Rubbra is the ideal gramophone composer for his work does not give up its secrets on an...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 10/1994

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa: A Portrait

A somewhat grouchy acceptance of the television style gives way before long to acknowledgment of a tricky job well done...

Reviewed in issue 12/2001

Michael Bolton - My Secret Passion: The Arias

Michael Bolton | Philharmonia Orchestra | Renée Fleming | Steven Mercurio

For the uninitiated, Michael Bolton, a pop singer whose heartfelt vocal style would seem to imply a possible sympathy for...

Reviewed by jjolly in issue: 7/1998