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Poulenc (Les) biches; Stravinsky (The) Rite of Spring
BBC National Chorus of Wales | BBC National Orchestra of Wales | Thierry Fischer
Thierry Fischer’s French sensibility is evident from the very start of this brightly lit and articulate Rite: a provocative and...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 9/2011
GOLIJOV Falling Out of Time
Though conceived and created well before the pandemic, Osvaldo Golijov’s latest collaboration with Silkroad Ensemble seems uncannily well suited to...
Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 12/2020
R Strauss Operatic Extracts
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Julia Varady
After giving us choice recitals of her Verdi (1/96) and Wagner (A/98), Varady has now turned her attention to Richard...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/2000
Schwarzkopf Schubert & Mozart Lieder
Edwin Fischer | Elisabeth Schwarzkopf | Walter Gieseking
Two into one won't quite go; and that is the only drawback in what otherwise is one of the most...
Reviewed in issue 2/1987
Brahms Piano Concerto 1 & Chaconne
Daniel Levy | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Ernst Levy | Philharmonia Orchestra
The perennial problem with performances of Brahms's First Piano Concerto is one of balance, how to pit the titanic orchestral...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 4/2000
Bartók/Dohnányi Works for Piano and Orchestra
Budapest Festival Orchestra | Zoltán Kocsis
One might call this delightful collection “Richard Strauss in Hungary”, so obvious – and nourishing – is the German master’s...
Reviewed in issue 4/1996
Haydn: Orchestral Works
It has taken a surprisingly long time for the first complete set of the 12 ''London'' Symphonies to appear on...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/1989
LALO/ COQUARD La Jacquerie
First performed in Monte Carlo in 1895, La Jacquerie is almost invariably described as Lalo’s last opera, though the bulk...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2016
Mozart Symphonies Vol. 7
Adám Fischer | Danish National Chamber Orchestra
Mozart’s “Little” G minor Symphony is the most famous of a string of dramatic symphonies in that key written by...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2009
R. Strauss: Orchestral Works
Judging by these three discs, one might imagine that the orchestras of Eastern Europe were doing nothing except record Strauss's...
Reviewed in issue 3/1991
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