Chopin Etudes; Godowsky Etudes on Chopin Etudes

Boris Berezovsky

Here, uniquely, you can hear Chopin and Chopin-Godowsky side by side, marvelling or shuddering at the way Chopin’s original is...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2005

Celtic Magic

John Turner | Keith Swallow | Lesley-Jane Rogers | Richard Howarth | Richard Simpson | Tom Dunn

In a distinguished and varied career (which included lengthy spells at the BBC and UCLA), Peter Crossley-Holland (1916-2001) won perhaps...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 13/2003

Bruckner Symphony No 5

Alexander Rahbari | Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra

Rahbari directs a convincingly shaped Bruckner Fifth. The Adagio has real gravitas, while the Scherzo finds the right balance between...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 11/1998

Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet suite (arr Viola)

Helen Callus | Philip Bush

Helen Callus, a viola-player with exceptionally warm tone and perfect intonation, here offers a miscellany of transcriptions. She celebrates a...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 12/2007

Shostakovich Symphony No 8

Milan Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Orchestra | Oleg Caetani

If the booklet-notes are anything to go by, the conductor identifies this music with the hectic activity of war. So...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 3/2006

Arrangements for Brass

The name of the group, Munich Brass, is not a translation, the notes tell us, Munchner Blech was thought not...

Reviewed in issue 8/1989

Bach; Bartók; Hartmann Works for Solo Violin

Angèle Dubeau | Blair Williams | Pierre Lebeau | Viviane Hagner

Two recitals with very different approaches to building a programme for solo violin. Viviane Hagner’s is the more conventional, placing...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 5/2007

The Pilgrimage to Santiago

New London Consort | Philip Pickett

This remarkable two-disc album is far and away the most interesting recording I have heard in recent months. Scholarly, entertaining,...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 7/1992

Kyra Vayne, Volume 2

In her interview for BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, Kyra Vayne told of the home-visiting fortune-teller who, having made...

Reviewed in issue 11/1996

D. Stoll Reflections on Vedic Scriptures

David Ward | Noel Skinner | Pro Arte Trio

A Chinese Poet speaks Chinese. But what does he say? (rough paraphrase of Schoenberg). In light of recent letters to...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 10/1994