Biber Arminio

Barbara Schlick | Bernhard Landauer | Florian Mehltretter | Gerd Kenda | Gerd Türk | Gotthold Schwarz | Hermann Oswald | Irena Troupova | Markus Forster | Otto Rastbichler

Record companies should be applauded for their valuable contributions to a growing interest among performers and audiences in the music...

Reviewed in issue 6/1995

Strauss, R Don Juan; Burleske; Sinfonia Domestica

Alfred Blumen | BBC Symphony Orchestra | Bruno Walter | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Philharmonia Orchestra | Richard Strauss

“One of my chief pleasures is to hear Till and Don Juan on the wireless, conducted by yourself. What a...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/2009

American Orchestral Works

Jorge Mester | Kenneth Albrecht | Leonard Slatkin | Louisville Orchestra

Fashion has moved on since composers like Persichetti and Dello Joio established themselves with a kind of Hindemithian American neo-classicism....

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 6/1990

Beethoven Symphonies, etc

Algirdas Janutas | Benno Schollum | Dalia Schaechter | Jean Glennon | Kaunas State Choir | Sinfonia Varsovia | Yehudi Menuhin

I remember with great affection the Schubert symphony cycle that Menuhin recorded for HMV with the Bath Festival Chamber Orchestra...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/1996

Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas

Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra | Franz Konwitschny | Paul van Kempen | Staatskapelle Dresden | Wilhelm Kempff

To celebrate the centenary last November of the birth of Wilhelm Kempff, DG offer in the Dokumente series this fascinating...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1996

Field (The) Piano Concertos

It has been a delight returning to Field’s seven concertos, best taken one at a time, not as a marathon....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2008

Tansman Symphonies Vol. 4

Oleg Caetani | Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana

Four small-scale but by no means trivial works here complement the three volumes of Tansman’s numbered symphonies in Chandos’s valuable...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 3/2010

Brahms Clarinet Quintet & Trio

Clifford Benson | Gabrieli Qt | Karine Georgian | Thea King

Most recordings of the quintet fit only the first three movements on to the first side. This new one accommodates...

Reviewed in issue 9/1984

Tchaikovsky (The) Snow Maiden

Arkady Mishenkin | Elena Okolysheva | Igor Golovschin | Moscow Capella | Moscow Symphony Orchestra

Since Ostrovsky has virtually no following in the West, the music Tchaikovsky wrote for his play has languished, which is...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/1998

Twining Chrysalid Requiem.

(Toby) Twining Music

Commissioned by the New York downtown composers’ collective Bang on a Can for their People’s Commissioning Fund Concert in 2000,...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 4/2003