Medtner Works for Violin and Piano

Alexander Shirinksy | Dmitri Galynin

With all the interest being shown in Medtner's music at present it was inevitable that an enterprising company should eventually...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 11/1993

Josquin Desprez Vocal Works

Andrew Lawrence-King | Andrew Parrott | Taverner Choir | Taverner Consort

High on my own list of desiderata has long been another Josquin record from Andrew Parrott, who last did one...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 5/1993

Classical Brubeck

(Dave) Brubeck Quartet | Alan Opie | London Oratory School Choir | London Symphony Orchestra | London Voices | Russell Gloyd

No doubt that Dave Brubeck’s enduring popularity as a jazz musician has helped the cause of Dave Brubeck classical composer....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2003

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He doesn’t look – and doesn’t sound – it, but when this was filmed, Kraus was approaching his 68th birthday....

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/2005

Ezio Pinza - Recital

(Anonymous) Orchestra | (Robert) Shaw Chorale | Ada Sassoli | Alfred Newman | Erich Leinsdorf | Ezio Pinza | Frank St Leger | Fritz Kitzinger | Gabriel Lapierre | Giulio Setti

I am reviewing these issues together because though the singers are obviously very different from each other, the CDs appear...

Reviewed in issue 9/1993

Martinu Symphonies 1 and 2

Berlin Symphony Orchestra | Claus Peter Flor

The longest and the shortest of Martinu's six symphonies: No. 1 romantic and tensely energetic, with a tragic Largo that...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1990

Elgar Falstaff, etc

Andrew Davis | BBC Symphony Orchestra | Graham Sheen

How odd that, not unlike Boult’s marvellous 1950 account (the last version of Falstaff to have come my way), this...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/1998

Guédron (Le) Consert des Consorts

Le Poème Harmonique | Vincent Dumestre

It’s a long time since I had this much fun listening to a CD. There have been many anthologies of...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 13/2002

Cage Complete Piano Music, Volume 1

Steffen Schleiermacher

Let me say at once that the German composer and pianist, Steffen Schleiermacher, is a truly outstanding musician and I...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 3/1998

R.Strauss Orchestral Music from Operas

Jeffrey Tate | Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

No, these are not 'bleeding chunks', but concert arrangements by Strauss himself. The Capriccio sextet is familiar enough; it was...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1993