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Night Songs
Jean-Yves Thibaudet | Renée Fleming
Renée Fleming has one of the most sheerly beautiful voices in the world‚ with flawless high notes and an extended...
Reviewed in issue 2/2002
Russia
This is a Russian choral album with a difference, offering not only the rich, diatonic panoply of Glinka’s cherubim and...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 02/2015
Horowitz in Moscow
As one who has been rather disappointed by some recent Harowitz performances, I am happy to salute this issue warmly...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 12/1986
GREGSON Dream Song. Horn Concerto. Aztec Dances
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | Richard Watkins
Edward Gregson has a formidable standing as a brass band composer, and his links with that world are writ large...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2014
Dances from Hungary
Danubia Symphony Orchestra | Domonkos Héja
Nowadays there seems to be a very narrow division between ‘young’ and ‘youth’ orchestras, playing standards having rocketed since the...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 5/2004
Short Stories
The gulf between Messiaen’s Catalogue d’oiseaux (Ugorski’s last DG offering, 5/94) and this programme of ‘short stories’ – or, more...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/1996
David Stanhope - (A) Virtuoso Recital
David Stanhope is an Australian conductor, composer, horn-player and trombonist who claims he only occasionally finds time to practise the...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/2006
GOLDMARK Symphonic Poems, Vol 2 (Bollon)
Bamberger Symphoniker | Fabrice Bollon
‘The mighty king of dissonance’: that, bizarrely enough, is how the Viennese critic Eduard Hanslick described Karl Goldmark, and when...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2021
Olga Peretyatko: Russian Light
Dmitry Liss | Olga Peretyatko | Ural Philharmonic Orchestra
After a couple of albums of bel canto arias, Olga Peretyatko is on home soil for ‘Russian Light’. Her journey...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2017
The London Cello Sound
''The London Viola Sound'' is not only the most generous programme here, but the most attractive and imaginative. Every one...
Reviewed in issue 9/1995
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