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BERNSTEIN A Quiet Place (Nagano)
This is a recording of a hypothetical. What if Leonard Bernstein had rewritten his opera A Quiet Place for a...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2018
Collectors' Treasures, Volume 2
These are treasures for collectors in the plural but they come from the treasury of one collector: Bill Breslin, proprietor...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/2005
Siegmeister Piano Works, Volume 1
A native of New York City and graduate of Columbia University, Elie Siegmeister (1909-91) studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/2000
Nine Daies Wonder
The Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments
When in 1599 Will Kemp, great clown of the age, late a member of Shakespeare’s company and probably the creator...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW2014
WALTON Façade
Carole Boyd | ensemble | Zeb Soanes
Listeners to BBC Radio 4 will already be familiar with Carole Boyd (aka Lynda Snell in The Archers) and Zeb...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2017
The Power of Love: An English Songbook
This is a carefully planned programme of songs from the 1880s to the 1920s, some of them not well known....
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2012
Rachmaninov Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 4
Boris Berezovsky | Dmitry Liss | Ural Philharmonic Orchestra
Here are compelling accounts of the solo parts of these works accompanied by routine partners and a recorded balance that...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2006
Mendelssohn Midsummer Nights' Dream
A fine new complete version of A Midsummer Night's Dream incidental music that is a genuine bargain. Andrew Litton not...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/1988
Britten Billy Budd
Britten's score is so often praised that we tend to neglect the distinction of Forster and Crozier's libretto. That thought...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/2000
Telemann Orchestral Works
The German record company CPO deserve praise for their enterprising forays into Telemann’s vocal music (6/94, 7/94, 9/94 and 1/95)....
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1997
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