Hoddinott Choral and Orchestral Works

Charles Groves | Csaba Erdélyi | David Atherton | Felicity Palmer | Jill Gomez | Moray Welsh | New Philharmonia Orchestra | Philharmonia Chorus | Philharmonia Orchestra | Stuart Burrows

An excellent companion to the three Hoddinott symphonies reviewed above. As reissued on a single, generously filled CD this collection...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/1997

Walton Symphony No 1, Belshazzar's Feast

Chorus | Donald Bell | Laurence Olivier | London Symphony Orchestra | New Philharmonia Orchestra | Philharmonia Chorus | Philharmonia Orchestra | William Walton | Yehudi Menuhin

Like Elgar before him, Walton was among his own finest interpreters on disc. He may have jokingly told the players...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/2000

Lange-Müller Chamber Works

Carl Nielsen Quartet | Copenhagen Trio | Morten Mogensen | Søren Elbaek

Lange-Muller (1850-1926) has as peripheral a hold on the record catalogue as do such compatriots as Hartmann or Horneman. He...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 1/1996

Meyerbeer Les Huguenots

Andrée Didier | Antoine Garcin | Boris Martinovich | Christian Boulay | Christian Jean | Cyril Diedrich | Danielle Borst | Elina Bordry | Françoise Pollet | Ghyslaine Raphanel

Towards the end of his masterly chapter on Les huguenots in Opera on Record 2 (Hutchinson: 1983) Vivian Liff notes...

Reviewed in issue 9/1990

After a Dream

This seems to be an exercise in economy of presentation. We have no notes about the music, biographies written (presumably)...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/2010

Bach Goldberg Variations; Keyboard Works

Maggie Cole

Eminently sane, is how I would describe this performance of the Goldbergs (played on a modern copy of a Goujon):...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1999

Rachmaninov Vespers

With currently available versions of Rachmaninov's Vespers, or Vigil, now into double figures, there is plenty of scope for choice....

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1995

Smyth The Wreckers

Anne-Marie Owens | Annemarie Sand | Anthony Roden | BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | Brian Bannatyne-Scott | David Wilson-Johnson | Huddersfield Choral Society | Judith Howarth | Justin Lavender | Odaline de la Martinez

After the splendour of Dame Ethel Smyth's Mass in D (Virgin Classics, 8/91) and an absorbing survey of her chamber...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 11/1994

Unica Hispaniae

Alia Musica | Miguel Sánchez

There are numerous tropes, monodic and polyphonic, to pieces of the Ordinary and the Proper of the Mass, as well...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 12/1999

Berkeley, L Symphony No 3; Orchestral Works

Lennox Berkeley | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Roger Winfield

With characteristic modesty Sir Lennox Berkeley once said that as a composer on the rostrum he could not bring out...

Reviewed in issue 3/1993