CHILCOTT Requiem

Andrew Staples | Jonathan Vaughan | Laurie Ashworth | Matthew Owens | Nash Ensemble | Wells Cathedral Choir

This disc of premiere recordings of music by one of the most popular British choral composers is dominated by the...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 06/2012

STRAVINSKY Complete Music for Solo Piano (Shevchenko)

The complete Stravinsky solo works are a daunting undertaking and Oxana Shevchenko, who took first prize in the 2010 Scottish...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 06/2018

Persichetti: Orchestral Works

Charles Dutoit | Philadelphia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti | Robert Taub

Persichetti was a prodigiously fluent composer, performer, writer and teacher based all his life in Philadelphia, although he had considerable...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 3/1991

Rota Volume II

Milan La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra | Riccardo Muti

The influences on Nino Rota’s music for The Godfather aren’t hard to identify – Stravinsky, Ravel, Puccini. It’s an ironic...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 4/1998

Prokofiev Orchestral Works

Sting | Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Claudio Abbado

Sting makes his entrance nonchalantly whistling Peter's theme—which was definitely not Sir John Gielgud's style (Virgin Classics). But this is...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 4/1991

Schumann/Schoenberg Violin Concertos

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Claudio Abbado | Maurizio Pollini

From the persuasive blend of expressiveness and flow with which Schumann's first theme unfolds, both in the orchestra and the...

Reviewed in issue 7/1990

Sing Willow: Shakespeare Songs

Andrew Nunn | Les Sirènes

Shakespeare’s anniversary year may be over but still the last of the musical tributes are trickling in. ‘Sing Willow’ may...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2017

This Christmas Night: Contemporary Carols

Choir of Worcester College, Oxford | Edward Turner | Nicholas Freestone | Stephen Farr

The vast majority of Christmas carol CDs spend most of their playing careers providing seasonal atmosphere. Critical listening is not...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/2012

The Naming of Birds: British Wind Quintets

Lumas Winds

The concept behind this intriguing, delightfully played programme is the development of the British wind quintet decade by decade from...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2024

An Immortal Legacy

(The) Sixteen | Harry Christophers

This compilation recreates one of The Sixteen’s concert programmes, focusing on English choral music from Tallis to Tippett (with a...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2013