Tubin Symphonies 3 & 8

Neeme Järvi | Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

All of Eduard Tubin's ten symphony symphonies are now on record. The Seventh is available on LP played by the...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1988

Miaskovsky Symphonies Nos. 1 and 5

Gennady Rozhdestvensky | USSR Ministry of Culture State Symphony Orchestra | USSR State Academy Symphony Orchestra

So long as the listed alternative versions are in the catalogue, this new issue will be uncompetitive. Rozhdestvensky’s superlative account...

Reviewed in issue 5/1997

Tü-u4r Flux

Dennis Russell Davies | Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

It looks as though news of the death of the symphony has been greatly exaggerated. Symphonies are appearing at a...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 1/2000

Repighi Songs, Volume 1

Leonardo de Lisi | Reinild Mees

Leonardo de Lisi is a discovery, a lyric tenor (though capable of a ringing forte, as he slightly too often...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1997

Brahms Piano Works

Emanuel Ax

Some 40 years separate the intimately personal miniatures opening this disc from the F sharp minor Sonata with which Ax...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1996

Concerti curiosi

It is hard to know which came first – title or concept – but it is clear that what we...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 7/2011

Mozart, arr Grieg Piano Sonatas

Elisabeth Leonskaja | Sviatoslav Richter

Now this really is something to tickle the fancy of transcription-fanciers. When Grieg added an accompaniment for a second piano...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 2/1996

Shostakovich Violin Concerto No 1; Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk - Suite (arr Conlon)

Cologne Gürzenich Philharmonic Orchestra | James Conlon | Vladimir Spivakov

An unexpected coupling‚ and‚ at first sight‚ the casting looks unlikely too. Now in his late fifties‚ the echt Russian...

Reviewed in issue 5/2002

Mendelssohn piano Trios Nos 1 & 2

Gould Piano Trio

Formed in 1968 and 1987 repectively‚ the Trio di Milano (with a change of violinist in 1981) and the Gould...

Reviewed in issue 2/2002

Bach Partitas for Organ

Christopher Herrick

For this recording the Herrick/Hyperion team have returned to Bremgarten, the scene of their earlier triumph with the organ sonatas...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 5/1992