Grieg Orchestral Works

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra | Jerzy Maksymiuk

At super-bargain price Naxos offer a decently serviceable version of the Peer Gynt Suites, but one which is no more...

Reviewed in issue 10/1994

R.Strauss Orchestral and Vocal Works

Eileen Hulse | Neeme Järvi | Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Strauss's F minor Symphony (his second!) was admired by several distinguished contemporaries and did his early career no harm at...

Reviewed in issue 8/1993

Pfitzner Das Herz

André Wenhold | Beth Johanning | Ingo Christoph | Iris Melle | Kerstin Quandt | Lars Hübel | Lucian Chioreanu | Nikolai Borowski | Robert Dressler | Roberta Cunningham

Das Herz is Pfitzner's last opera, completed 16 years after his masterpiece Palestrina. It is more problem piece than masterpiece,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/1994

McLaughlin: Guitar Works

John McLaughlin | Katia Labèque | London Symphony Orchestra | Michael Tilson Thomas

This is crossover music and a lot of people will enjoy it, so I don't want to sound patronizing. The...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/1990

Guitar Collection

Maggie Cole | Nigel North

In offering a brief aural history f the present-day guitar's ancestry this recording mirrors the first LP of Julian Bream's...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 6/1987

Domingo sings Puccini/Verdi Opera Arias

The main interest here is in the Don Carlos extracts, a preview of the complete set of the opera in...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1985

Stokowski Transcriptions

Marjana Lipovsek | Philadelphia Orchestra | Wolfgang Sawallisch

It is good to find the Philadelphia at last paying tribute to Leopold Stokowski, the genius who more than anyone...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1996

Beethoven Choral Symphony

Carol Vaness | Christoph von Dohnányi | Cleveland Orchestra | Cleveland Orchestra Chorus | Jonathan Taylor | Robert Lloyd | Siegfried Jerusalem

Issued to coincide with the European tour of the Cleveland Orchestra, this fine account of the Ninth Symphony brings a...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1986

Ravel Piano Music, Vol.2

Gordon Fergus-Thompson

With this recital Gordon Fergus-Thompson completes his Ravel cycle and confirms his calibre and status as a distinguished, most individual...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/1993

Berlioz & Saint Säens Orchestral works

Andrew Litton | Ian Tracey | Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

The opening Berlioz Overture immediately establishes the problems of recording in Liverpool Cathedral with its long reverberation period. I am...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/1987