Koussevitzky Gramophone Premieres

Boston Symphony Orchestra | Serge Koussevitzky

You are not likely to find a more characterful performance of Copland’s El salon Mexico than this premiere recording by...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 1/1997

MARX Romantic Piano Concerto. Castelli Romani (David Lively)

Bochum Symphony Orchestra | David Lively | Steven Sloane

Joseph Marx is little more than a footnote today, though Naxos is trying to put that right, bringing back to...

Reviewed in issue 09/2019

Lekeu Vocal Works

Dinah Bryant | Jules Bastin | Liège Philharmonic Orchestra | Namur Symphonic Chorus | Philippe Huttenlocher | Pierre Bartholomée | Zeger Vandersteene

Among the many lamentable early deaths in musical history, one of the most tantalizing was that of the talented young...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1992

William Kapell - Piano Recital

William Kapell had a blazing talent. Alas‚ his genius shone all too briefly and after dazzling audiences‚ chiefly in his...

Reviewed in issue 5/2002

Brahms/Dvorák Chamber Works

DelmÉ Qt | Keith Puddy

These are delectable performances of two favourite chamber works: particularly on the Pickwick label at mid price they deserve every...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1988

PROKOFIEV Symphonies Nos 4 & 7

Andrew Litton | Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra

Is Valery Gergiev unchallengeable in this repertoire? He may be at something like his best in his recent Mariinsky remakes...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2016

Dvorák: Symphonies 7-9

Minnesota Orchestra | Neville Marriner

The essence of Marriner's performance of the New World is shown at the very opening, where he creates an elegiac...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1985

Mischa & Lily Maisky: 20th Century Classics

Lily Maisky | Lucerne Symphony Orchestra | Mischa Maisky

The most interesting item here is a wild amalgam of folk-derived dance music and orchestral rabble-rousing from Tajikistan-born Benjamin Yusupov,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2019

Romantic Echoes

Gidon Kremer | Oleg Maisenberg

Admirers of the Strauss Violin Sonata will want to have Jascha Heifetz's 1934 recording with Arpad Sandor; no one else,...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 12/1999

Dvorák/Smetana Works for Violin & Piano

Itzhak Perlman | Samuel Sanders

As a high-powered virtuoso who is also a charmer, no one today so captivatingly inherits the mantle of Fritz Kreisler...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1986