Chopin Piano Concertos Nos 1 and 2

After a career-threatening illness, Janina Fialkowska returns to the concert stage sounding supremely confident and assured. And here, in live...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2011

Toscanini conducts Schubert, Schumann & Brahms

Arturo Toscanini | NBC Symphony Orchestra

None of these works was recorded commercially by Toscanini, and all were rare items in his concert repertoire. His last...

Reviewed in issue 6/1990

Alkan Concerto for Solo Piano

Marc-André Hamelin

Alkan's Concerto pour piano seul—the eighth, ninth and tenth etudes from his colossal set of Douze Etudes dans les tons...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 8/1993

Victorian Concert Overtures

David Lloyd-Jones | English Northern Philharmonia

Through no particular fault of their own, the works of many composers prominent in British musical life a century or...

Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 1/1992

Beethoven: Middle-period string quartets

Melos Qt

An interesting inclusion in this new DG set is the only currently available version of Beethoven's transcription of his Op....

Reviewed in issue 11/1985

Baroque Orchestral Works

François-Henri Houbart | French Instrumental Ensemble | Guy Touvron | Michel Guyot | Philip Bride

It would seem that there is either an insatiable appetite amongst the public for a potpourri of this variety or...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1986

Lewis, J Epitaph for Abelard

Amy Liptrott | Benjamin Griffiths | David Jones | Douglas Badger | Fiona Slominska | Gerald Gregory | Ian Tate | Mark Concar | Sarah Ableman

Jeffrey Lewis was born in Port Talbot in 1942 and studied with Ligeti and Stockhausen. But his music is entirely...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/2005

Nielsen Orchestral Works

Eduard Serov | Odense Symphony Orchestra

For most Nielsen collectors the main interest here will be Snefrid and Amor and the Poet rather than the symphony....

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 11/1994

Berio Duets for Two Violins, Volume 1

Accademia Bizantina | Antony Gjezi | Carlo Chiarappa | Daniel Berio | Romano Valentini

For a composer of Berio's stature to spend valuable time between 1979 and 1983 on writing a series of 34...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 5/1994

Davis, C Carl's War

Carl Davis | Czech National Symphony Orchestra

“Carl’s War” brings together five of Carl Davis’s television scores, newly recorded, with settings linked to the Second World War....

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 3/2011