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Boyce Ode for St Cecilia's Day
William Boyce was a prolific composer of odes. He wrote more than 50, most of them for the court, when...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/2000
Williamson Complete Piano Works
Malcolm Williamson’s music has been so scandalously neglected during the past decade that this Australian initiative is greatly to be...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 3/2004
Liszt Organ Works
As one of the wonders of the organ world the Ingolstadt Klais has frequently been the focus of record producers’...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 7/1996
Chopin (24) Preludes; Piano Sonata No 3
Comparison with Marc-André Hamelin (see panel opposite) in the Third Sonata is fascinating. At his best, Demidenko is a dazzling...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 2/2009
Bruckner Symphony No 9 (cpted Carragan)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra | Yoav Talmi
This two-record, 99 minute set is principally interesting for the chance it gives us to hear on record for the...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1987
Crumb Makrokosmos, Vols. 1 & 2; Mathe Der Schlangenträger
These two sets of 12 pieces each, dating from 1972-3, are classics in establishing Crumb’s personal extended piano technique. He...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 10/1997
Barber Capricorn Concerto
John Gracie | Karen Jones | Marin Alsop | Royal Scottish National Orchestra | Stéphane Rancourt
This final volume of Barber’s orchestral works on Naxos sorts through souvenirs from Barber’s life. The scintillating neo-classical Capricorn Concerto...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 1/2005
Tchaikovsky Piano Works
A live 1985 Pletnev recording of The Seasons (without coupling) has been available on the Russian Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga label for...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 12/1994
Brahms German Requiem
Shaw (George Bernard), thou shouldst be living at this hour! For one thing, it would be a pleasure to hear...
Reviewed in issue 11/1993
Vivaldi Oboe Concertos
(Il) Fondamento Ensemble | Paul Dombrecht
Six bright oboe concertos, given breezy performances by this Flemish orchestra under the direction of one of Europe's most experienced...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 1/2000
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