Widor Organ Symphonies Nos 9 and 10

ASV’s six-disc series of the Widor symphonies has featured several organists and organs with varying degrees of success, and the...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 2/2006

Brahms/Dvorák Orchestral Works

Cleveland Orchestra | Vladimir Ashkenazy

Will there be a new fashion in coupling Brahms symphonies with overtures? Dvorak overtures? This is the second First Symphony...

Reviewed in issue 6/1993

Hochreither; Ramhaufski Gloria in Excelsis Deo

Ars Antiqua Austria | Gunar Letzbor | St Florian Boys' Choir

The Benedictine abbey at Lambach in Upper Austria was founded in 1056. Its library contains illuminated manuscripts of medieval music,...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 6/2008

Franck (The) Major Piano Works

Sergio Fiorentino

Sergio Fiorentino’s journey from a deft if sometimes slipshod virtuoso to a great artist, while largely ignored in his native...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2005

Sigismondo d'India Solo Vocal Music

Andrew Lawrence-King | Nigel Rogers | Paul O'Dette

In the preface to his Musiche da cantar solo of 1609, Sigismondo d'India noted with endearing frankness that in the...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 4/1993

Mozart Chamber Music for Clarinet

Anner Bylsma | Archibudelli | Charles Neidich | Robert Levin

The performance of the Clarinet Quintet is as sympathetic, as soft-edged and as autumnal in flavour as anyone could wish....

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/1994

Waters Ça Ira

Bryn Terfel | Ismael Lo | Italia Conti Children's Choir | London Oratory Choir | London Voices | Paul Groves | Rick Wentworth | Ying Huang

Roger Waters (if you don’t know) was bass player, chief lyricist and co-composer in Pink Floyd during the period when...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 10/2005

Finzi Dies Natalis & Intimations of Immortality.

Corydon Orchestra | Corydon Singers | John Mark Ainsley | Matthew Best

I am not very confident of understanding what T. S. Eliot meant when he said he had “shored” various fragments...

Reviewed in issue 1/1997

Schubert Piano Sonatas

Mikhail Kazakevich

Not to be confused with Stephen Kovacevich, nor likely to be, Mikhail Kazakevich offers a Schubert of beguiling surface beauty...

Reviewed in issue 12/1995

Poulenc/Guilmant/Widor Organ Works

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | Ian Tracey | Yan Pascal Tortelier

As horoscope writers in the seamier magazines might put it, with Yan Pascal Tortelier and the BBC Philharmonic in conjunction...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/1994