Holmboe Works For Violin & Piano

Holmboe’s reputation rests on his masterly series of symphonies, string quartets and concertos. Few realise that he was a practical...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 7/2010

Prokofiev War and Peace

Beno Blachut | Eva Hribiková | Gertrud Jahn | Ivana Mixová | Ivo Zídek | Jirí Zahradnícek | Kirov Opera Chorus | Kirov Opera Orchestra | Libuše Márová | Peter Saray

What is it about Prokofiev that so riles the modernists? Even Stravinsky was prepared to allow that Prokofiev’s music had...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 8/2004

Monckton Songs from the Shows

Catherine Bott | New London Light Opera Chorus | New London Orchestra | Richard Suart

Maybe some readers will ask “Lionel who?” Monckton’s name has not been much bandied about in recent decades. One of...

Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 6/2008

Mozart Don Giovanni

Alan Titus | Arleen Augér | Bavarian Radio Chorus | Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Edith Mathis | Jan-Hendrik Rootering | Julia Varady | Rafael Kubelík | Rainer Scholze | Rolando Panerai

In a field that is already so well tilled, a newcomer must offer something special if it is to make...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1986

Beethoven Edition, Vol. 3 - Orchestral & Stage Works

Academy of St Martin in the Fields | Andrew Davis | Anneliese Rothenberger | Arleen Augér | BBC Singers | BBC Symphony Orchestra | Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Berlin Radio Chorus | Berlin RIAS Chamber Choir | Bernhard Klee

Beethoven writing occasional pieces and ballet or incidental music is the composer on automatic pilot or, to put it another...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 13/1997

Debussy; Mozart Songs

András Schiff | Juliane Banse

Juliane Banse and András Schiff have been giving recitals together for several years, but this is their first recording. To...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 6/2003

Walton Orchestral Works

Bryden Thomson | London Philharmonic Orchestra

This is Bryden Thomson's finest contribution yet to the Chandos Walton series, helped by fuller, more detailed recording than on...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1991

Schubert Mayrhofer Lieder

Andreas Staier | Christoph Prégardien

Prégardien and Staier‚ who have now been musical partners for more than 10 years‚ add to their laurels as interpreters...

Reviewed in issue 1/2002

Leo Miserere – sacred works

(Les) Talens Lyriques | Christoph Rousset

If one can talk of Leonardo Leo’s ‘most famous’ work, it has to be his double-choir Miserere of 1739, a...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 3/2003

Mahler Symphony No 4

Felicity Lott | Franz Welser-Möst | London Philharmonic Orchestra

This is special, controversial, perhaps, but special. I've not heard the up-and-coming young Austrian conduct Mahler before hope I will...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/1988