Zemlinsky Lyrische Symphonie

Christine Schäfer | Christoph Eschenbach | Matthias Goerne | Paris Orchestra

There have been several memorable recordings of Zemlinsky’s masterpiece and this one, the first for many years, can be placed...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 7/2006

Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice

Bavarian Radio Chorus | Georg Solti | Helen Donath | Jolanta Kaufman | Leopold Hager | Lucia Popp | Marilyn Horne | Marjana Lipovsek | Munich Radio Orchestra | Pilar Lorengar

Competition here will have as much to do with texts as with performances. Clearly stated on the box of the...

Reviewed in issue 2/1988

Gluck Iphegnie en Tauride

Boston Baroque | Christine Goerke | Jayne West | Mark Andrew Cleveland | Mark Risinger | Martin Pearlman | Rodney Gilfry | Sharon Baker | Stephen Salters | Vinson Cole

‘With Gluck, there’s a long sweep to the drama,’ says Martin Pearlman towards the end of his illustrated introductory talk...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 12/2000

LINKOLA Piano Concerto No 1 MATVEJEFF Cello Concerto. Ad Astra

Dima Slobodeniouk | Henri Sigfridsson | Tuomas Lehto | Turku Philharmonic Orchestra

Where many composers are wary of revealing the detailed programmes behind their works, Jukka Linkola (b1955) must be unique in...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2014

Casella Complete Piano Works

Lya De Barberiis

Here on a three-CD album Lya de Barberiis gives us the complete piano music of Alfredo Casella (1883-1947), a substantial...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/2003

Myaskovsky Symphonies Nos 23 & 24

Both these recordings are contained in the rival boxed intégrale – and now Gramophone Award-winner – of 16 CDs from...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2008

'Between Two Worlds'

Dmitri Berlinsky | Eric Nowlin | Eric Zuber | Guy Yehuda | Jon Weber | Kevin Brown | Suren Bagratuni | Yvonne Lam

As his extensive discography makes plain, clarinettist Guy Yehuda is always on the lookout to place Jewish-related music and Jewish...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2024

The Young Menuhin Encores, Vol.1

Artur Balsam | Ferguson Webster | Hubert Giesen | Louis Persinger | Marcel Gazelle | Yehudi Menuhin

Biddulph have been busy reissuing Menuhin's earliest recordings of short pieces, and their CDs have so far been planned in...

Reviewed in issue 9/1991

Simone Kermes: Love

Enrico Casazza | La Magnifica Communita Ensemble | Simone Kermes

Part recital, part musical self-help manual, Simone Kermes’s latest album is a guide to love, 17th-century style. Whether your romantic...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2016

Works for Clarinet and Orchestra

Andrew Litton | English Chamber Orchestra | Howard Blake | Thea King | Thomas Trotter

Critics ought to sympathize with conservative composers: they share a similar struggle to keep cliche at bay. Really fresh compositions...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/1987