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Isham (The) Black Dahlia - OST
I guess that many a film composer would have given their eye teeth to score the soundtrack to Brian De...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 11/2006
BRITTEN Billy Budd
This is getting confusing: the Glyndebourne Festival DVD of Billy Budd (9/11) is now followed by a CD of the...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 03/2013
WEINBERG Chamber Symphonies Nos 2 & 4 (Krimer)
East-West Chamber Orchestra | Rostislav Krimer
This disc completes Rostislav Krimer’s survey of Weinberg’s chamber symphonies with the East-West Chamber Orchestra. As David Fanning rightly noted...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2021
Vivaldi Concertos
The seven concertos on this new disc from Virgin are mainly well known and well contrasted. Three of them feature...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 12/1990
CORIGLIANO; HO Chamber Works
Cedric Blary | Karl Hirzer | Kyle Eustace | Land’s End Ensemble | Laura Hynes | Mary Sullivan
Imagine setting the words to Paul McCartney’s ‘Yesterday’ while ignoring the song’s well-known flowing melody, plangent harmonies and nostalgic expression....
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2024
Paganini Solo Violin Works
It’s no surprise to learn that Ning Feng was the winner of the 2006 International Paganini Competition in Genoa; he’s...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 2/2008
Sonata pro Tabula
In his booklet-notes, Reinhard Goebel makes no bones about this not being profound music. “Unobtrusive, homophonic sonorities, unassertive changes of...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/1998
Live in Buenos Aires
Britten Sinfonia | Joanna MacGregor
This is the first recording marking MacGregor’s new contract with Warner, a live concert with the Britten Sinfonia played before...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 4/2010
Beethoven/Boccherini Concertos
Edward Heath | English Chamber Orchestra | Felix Schmidt | Zingara Trio
The booklet tells us that this performance of Beethoven's Triple Concerto has been made possible through the generosity and dedication...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 6/1989
Antony Hopkins: A Portrait
In the 1940s and ’50s Antony Hopkins was a familiar name as composer, conductor, broadcaster, author, lecturer, first-rate pianist –...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: AW/2012
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