Hindemith Vocal and Chamber Works

Ansgar Schneider | Gunter Teuffel | Lajos Lencsés | Ruth Ziesak | Shoshana Rudiakov

The central connection of the works collected here is the use as a solo instrument of the oboe – or...

Reviewed in issue 6/1996

Elgar Violin Concerto

London Philharmonic Orchestra | Nigel Kennedy | Vernon Handley

The unobtrusive excellence of the sound quality of the Gramophone Record of the Year (1985) is all the more grateful...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/1985

Reger Variations and Fugues

Mark Latimer

Mark Latimer won some publicity in 1999 with the ‘first ever live [unedited] recording’ of Alkan’s Concerto for Solo Piano...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2004

BRAHMS Symphony No 2

Budapest Festival Orchestra

Clemens Romijn’s booklet-essay for this new Budapest recording of Brahms’s Second Symphony talks of the work as a ‘paragon of...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 01/2015

The Piano Music Of John Ogdon

Brenda Lucas

Born in 1937, John Ogdon was in his student days a member of the Manchester New Music Group and gave...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 3/1992

Audra McDonald - Way Back to Paradise

(Anonymous) Orchestra | Adam Guettel | Audra McDonald | Dawn Upshaw | Eric Stern | Lee Musiker | Theresa McCarthy

If you don’t yet know who Audra McDonald is, then you will, you surely will, after hearing this, her debut...

Reviewed in issue 7/1999

Faire is the Heaven

Noel Edison | Paul Halley | St John's Choir, Elora

On the face of it this is a collection of familiar hymns and anthems sung by the choir of a...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 9/2004

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Five Mystical Songs and Other British Choral Anthems

Elizabeth Limb | Jeremy Backhouse | Julia Smith | Kate Jurka | Martin Ford | Rachel Limb | Roderick Williams | Vasari Singers

Here’s yet another fresh slant on the glorious Five Mystical Songs to mark Vaughan Williams’s 150th birthday, this time with...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2023

Baroque Concertos for Pan-pipes

English Chamber Orchestra | Gheorghe Zamfir | James Judd | José-Luis Garcia | Neil Black

It is a solid fact that the panpipes existed long before humankind reached its 'baroque' phase, as also that baroque...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 5/1988

MacMillan; Purcell Bright Orb Of Harmony

The title of this superb new disc from The Sixteen is taken from John Talbot’s “Ode upon the death of...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 6/2009