Berio Vocal & Orchestral Works

(Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | Electric Phoenix | Jard van Nes | Riccardo Chailly

It may be at the risk of opening the flood-gates of the correspondence pages to say so, but to my...

Reviewed in issue 8/1990

Shostakovich Symphony No 8

Sneaking back into contention on the budget Encore label, André Previn’s first, 1973 version of the Eighth would sit just...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 3/2008

Messiaen Organ Works

Thomas Trotter

I much admired at least two of Trotter’s CDs for Argo, especially his Liszt double-bill with the Ad nos and...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 8/1996

Kodaly Sonata

Boris Andrianov

It takes remarkable powers of concentration for a performer to sustain nearly an hour of solo cello music without any...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2011

Mozart Piano Concertos 1-4

Academy of Ancient Music | Christopher Hogwood | Robert Levin

‘These performances follow the original practice in Salzburg and use an orchestra without cellos’, says a note in the booklet....

Reviewed in issue 5/2001

Prokofiev Symphony No 6; Scythian Suite

André Previn | Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

A state-of-the-art recording of such realism and naturalness that one soon forgets that one is at home and not in...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 5/1988

Frankel Music for Strings

Alun Francis | Robert Dan | Seattle Northwest Chamber Orchestra

Benjamin Frankel was a late developer, and the first years of his maturity were also those in which he spent...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/1995

New Year's Day Concert in Vienna

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra | Willi Boskovsky

The 1979 Vienna New Year’s Day Concert marked the twenty-fifth occasion that Willi Boskovsky had appeared on the podium, violin...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 4/1996

Hindemith Sonatas for One and Two Pianos

Bernard Roberts | David Strong

Hans Petermandl on Marco Polo has come nearest to a complete survey of Hindemith’s solo piano music (over 90 per...

Reviewed in issue 11/1996

Bach Concerto Transcriptions

Israel Philharmonic Orchestra | Itzhak Perlman | Ray Still

Rather to my surprise, when digital transfers usually bring out idiosyncrasies of recording the more distractingly, this CD leaves me...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1985