Kashkashian/Levin Elegies

Kim Kashkashian | Robert Levin

The sparse cover of this disc, which is subtitled ''Elegies'' has a reproduction of a pallidly coloured abstract picture by...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 9/1986

Ullmann Orchestral Works

Brno State Philharmonic Orchestra | Israel Yinon | Konrad Richter

This is the first in yet another series devoted to ''the forgotten, lost and prohibited music of European composers in...

Reviewed in issue 10/1994

Taverner Sacred Choral Works

(The) Sixteen | Harry Christophers

Taverner's St William Mass, his Missa S(ancti) Wil(helmi)—a more probable title than its hitherto enigmatic ''Small Devotion''—as well as the...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 4/1992

Duetti da camera

(Les) Arts Florissants ensemble | Max Emanuel Cencic | Philippe Jaroussky | William Christie

Philippe Jaroussky and Max Emanuel Cencic possess a command of a slightly higher tessitura than the alto-bound majority of countertenors....

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 1/2012

Vainberg Chamber Symphonies Nos 1 & 4

Bengt Sandström | Thord Svedlund | Umeå Symphony Orchestra

The prolific Vainberg’s chamber symphonies are sometimes no more ‘chamber’ than his other symphonies: rather engagingly, he confessed that he...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/1999

French Works for Organ & Orchestra

French Radio National Orchestra | Jean Martinon | Marie-Claire Alain

Both Martinon and Marie-Claire Alain have recorded the Organ Symphony on at least one other occasion—Martinon with Bernard Gavoty as...

Reviewed in issue 8/1993

Divertimenti

Blu-ray, the latest advance in technology, can be sampled in this audio issue by the Trondheim Soloists, directed with much...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/2008

Bach Solo Cello Suites

Bruno Cocset

With all the available recordings of these suites on period instruments alone, new arrivals need to establish their technical (let...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 4/2003

Diepenbrock Orchestral Works

(The) Hague Philharmonic Orchestra | Emmy Verhey | Hans Vonk

The neglect of Alphons Diepenbrock (1862–1921) outside Holland is I suppose understandable, though a pity. He wrote no symphonies or...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/1990

Weber Oberon

Berlin Deutsches Symphony Orchestra | Berlin Radio Chorus | Bo Skovhus | Deon van der Walt | Heidi Person | Inga Nielsen | Marek Janowski | Melinda Paulsen | Peter Seiffert | Vesselina Kasarova

Oberon has always been a problem opera, ever since Weber conducted it at Covent Garden in 1826. Compelled to fit...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/1998