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Hindemith & Raphael: Works for Viola Solo
It may seem that the only music for solo viola written in the middle of the 20th century was Hindemith’s,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2013
Mahler Symphony No 4
Michiyoshi Inoue | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Yvonne Kenny
The Mahler Fourth stakes are growing impossibly high. Inoue more than consolidates here the impression he made on me last...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 7/1990
Englund Syms Nos. 4 & 5; (The) Great Wall of China
Eri Klas | Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra
The first cycle of Englund’s seven symphonies is finally completed here (after 10 years and under its third conductor) with...
Reviewed in issue 7/2001
Mozart (Die) Entführung aus dem Serail
The famously baton-less Ferenc Fricsay was always an invigorating Mozart conductor, favouring slimmed-down forces, urgent (yet never hectic) tempi and...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 5/2009
Teodorico Pedrini Baroque Concert at the Forbidden City
XVIII-21, Musique des Lumières
Now is this unusual or is this unusual? Teodorico Pedrini was an Italian organist sent by the Pope to Peking...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/1997
CPE BACH Der Frühling
Café Zimmermann | Rupert Charlesworth
The ever-inquisitive Café Zimmermann present a cross-section of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s least-known vocal and instrumental chamber music that conveys...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2017
Mendelssohn Psalms; Ave Maria
These rarely-heard sacred works of Mendelssohn merit attention: two psalms a prayer for peace and a setting of the Ave...
Reviewed by mberry in issue: 9/1988
MOZART Die Entführung aus dem Serail
This seems to be the first CD recording of Entführung for some years, so it’s especially welcome. It follows Don...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2015
JS BACH The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1
No one could accuse Christophe Rousset of rushing to record The Well-Tempered Clavier; Book 1 arrives a year after Book...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2016
Brahms Symphony No. 2
It has long been realised that Brahms’s Second Symphony is not as amiable as its lyric opening, major-key orientation and...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/2009
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