Schubert Piano works

Geoffrey Saba

Interest here centres on the F minor Sonata of 1818, the eleventh of Schubert's early experiments in this genre, which...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1991

MacMillan Seven Last Words From The Cross

Dmitri Ensemble | Graham Ross

Commissioned by the BBC in 1993 and first broadcast on television during Easter week of the following year, Seven Last...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/2009

Bach (6) Brandenburg Concertos

How quickly our ears have become attuned to the pitch, gestures, speeds and textures of the “period” revolution. Even when...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 5/2010

Kodály Choral Works

Danish National Radio Choir | Helle Charlotte Pedersen | Lars Pedersen | Maria Streijffert | Michael W. Hansen | Niels Henrik Nielsen | Stefan Parkman | Torsten Nielsen

There is something about the forthright, honest-to-goodness singing of the Danish National Radio Choir and soloists that especially suits Kodaly's...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 1/2000

Göran Söllscher - Preludes, Songs, Homages

Göran Söllscher

This is a recording that is likely to have wide appeal, though perhaps not for the devoted collector of the...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 7/1999

Reich Different Trains; (The) Four Sections; Triple Quartet

David Robertson | Lyon National Orchestra

There’s something special about this version of Different Trains. It’s the one commissioned by Wolfgang Sawallisch and David Robertson and...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 4/2005

Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle

Shortly before he died in 1868, Rossini orchestrated his last substantial masterpiece, the Petite Messe solennelle, not because it required...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/2011

Vivaldi Violin Concertos

(I) Solisti Italiani | (The) English Concert | Academy of St Martin in the Fields | Bruno Salvi | Carmel Kaine | Giovanni Guglielmo | Giulio Franzetti | Iona Brown | Massimo Quarta | Neville Marriner

There are two times two ways of approaching The Four Seasons: first, using either period instruments or modern ones; second,...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/1987

Vivaldi Sacred Music, Volume 6

(The) King's Consort | Alexandra Gibson | Hilary Summers | King's Consort Choir | Nathalie Stutzmann | Robert King | Susan Gritton

Volume 6 of Robert King’s most welcome complete cycle of Vivaldi’s sacred music brings a mixture of functional bits and...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 1/2001

Nielsen Symphonies 2 & 4

Danish State Radio Symphony Orchestra | Launy Grøndahl | Thomas Jensen

These premiere recordings have appeared on a two-LP set (EMI, 7/85), in harness with Erik Tuxen’s 78s of the Fifth...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 12/1996