Grieg Orchestral Songs

Bergen Philharmonic Choir | Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra | Bergen Vocal Ensemble | Ingebjørg Kosmo | Marita Solberg | Ole Kristian Ruud | Solveig Kringelborn | Trond Halstein Moe | Voci Nobili

The first 30 minutes of this CD – the last in the Bergen orchestra’s series of the composer’s orchestral music...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 5/2007

Satie Vexations

Alan Marks

It's nearly a century since Satie composed his Vexations for piano and chose its title with characteristic acuity. It consists...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1991

Barbirolli conducts English Orchestral Works

Evelyn Rothwell | Hallé Choir | Hallé Orchestra | John Barbirolli | Kathleen Ferrier | Royal Military School of Music Band, Kneller Hall

Vaughan Williams inscribed the manuscript full score of his Eighth Symphony: ‘For Glorious John, with love and admiration from Ralph’....

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 1/2003

Bach Inventions

Monika Knoblochová

Going back and forth between Jan Novák’s urbane, witty and utterly inventive 1960 harpsichord Inventions and a selection from Bach’s...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2007

Shostakovich Symphony No 7

Bonn Beethovenhalle Orchestra | Roman Kofman

In 1986 Kiev-born Roman Kofman made an exceptional recording of Valentin Silvestrov’s Fifth Symphony (Melodiya, 4/98 – nla). Working in...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 2/2006

Poulenc: Choral and Orchestral Works

Academy of St Martin in the Fields | George Malcolm | Iona Brown

Poulenc's Organ Concerto was written in 1938, not long after the death of a close friend in a car accident...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1990

Schubert Die schöne Müllerin

The cycles of Schubert seem a continuing magnet for any tenor or baritone with pretensions in the Lieder field, Schmidt...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1992

Icebreaker - Terminal Velocity

Icebreaker

The British ensemble Icebreaker emerged in the late 1980s as one answer to the identity crisis that new music suffered...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 7/2006

(The) Chaliapin Edition, Volume 3 1911-13

(Anonymous) Orchestra | Carlo Sabajno | Choir (anonymous) | Daniil Pokhitonov | Feodor Chaliapin | Milan La Scala Orchestra

With the world in its present state it may not seem appropriate to refer to this as a disaster­area‚ and...

Reviewed in issue 3/2002

Egk/Mozart Wind Music

Klaus Rainer Schöll | Mainz Wind Ensemble

If you have a particular interest in the more obscure byways of neo-classicism the music of Werner Egk (1901-83) might...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/1991