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Orion Weiss: Piano Protagonists
Leon Botstein | Orchestra Now | Orion Weiss
I can offer two possible reasons why it took around seven decades for Korngold’s 1923 Concerto for the Left Hand...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2021
DVOŘÁK; TCHAIKOVSKY; BORODIN String Quartets
I didn’t think they still made discs like this – three of the best-loved Romantic string quartets, grouped together for...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2018
PROKOFIEV Symphony No 5. The Year 1941
Marin Alsop | São Paulo Symphony Orchestra
I’m not sure we needed a recording of Prokofiev’s symphonic suite The Year 1941 but, as an up-beat to a...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2012
Anika Vavic Piano Recital
In its style of writing, Haydn’s sonata (called Divertimento in some editions) is plainly harpsichord music. There aren’t any dynamic...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 2/2004
Orbón Orchestral Works
Asturias Symphony Orchestra | Maximiano Valdés
Although usually thought of as a Cuban composer, Julián Orbón (1925-91) was born in the Asturias in Spain and emigrated,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 4/2003
Grieg Orchestral Works
Hallé Orchestra | John Barbirolli
In this Barbirolli Society issue Dutton has neatly brought together Grieg recordings made originally for both HMV and Pye, omitting...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1999
ELGAR Organ Sonata. Vesper Voluntaries.
In 2013 Oxford’s Merton College unveiled its new Dobson organ, a three-manual, 44 stop instrument, built in the US and...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2016
Simply Sarah
Charles Abramovic | Sarah Chang
Years ago, any 15-year-old who performed with Sarah Chang’s degree of technical facility would have been hailed a genius. Nowadays,...
Reviewed in issue 12/1997
Scriabin Symphony No. 2
Igor Golovschin | Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Scriabin’s Second Symphony, for the most part, commands genuine respect: it is more tightly and ingeniously knit than the First...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/1997
GLUCK Écho et Narcisse (Niquet)
Écho et Narcisse (1779) was Gluck’s sixth tragédie lyrique for Paris. Produced just four months after the first run of...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2023
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