Walton Choral Music

Polyphony | Stephen Layton | Wallace Collection

So soon after the excellent Naxos disc from St John’s College Choir of Walton’s shorter choral pieces‚ a new rival...

Reviewed in issue 7/2002

Marek Janowski

Well into his educational sessions with the young conductor Olivier Dejours, Marek Janowski offers some sage advice on how to...

Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 13/2011

Nielsen/Loeffler/Prokofiev Chamber Works

Chamber Music Northwest

These days, Nielsen's Wind Quintet is so well represented in the catalogues that choice between competing versions may in the...

Reviewed in issue 12/1993

Italian Opera Arias

Marcello Viotti | Munich Radio Orchestra | Rolando Villazón

Here comes the new tenor on the block. Rolando Villazón’s first disc on Virgin Classics turned up only a day...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 4/2004

Maconchy String Quartets Vol. I

Hanson Quartet

No devotee of the string quartet can go for long, in this country at least, without encountering the work of...

Reviewed in issue 11/1989

The Last Night of the Proms 1994

Andrew Davis | BBC Singers | BBC Symphony Chorus | BBC Symphony Orchestra | Bryn Terfel | Evelyn Glennie | Michael Davis

Since my days as a promenader during the late 1940s and early 1950s (when a Promenade Season Ticket cost 50...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1995

Bream plays Bach Lute Works

George Malcolm | Julian Bream

The way of playing Bach does not stand still; unfolding scholarship and changing tastes ensure constant shifts of what one...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 6/1986

Sharon Kam - Souvenirs

Sharon Kam’s stylishly simple melodic line sings beguilingly throughout this kaleidoscopically varied programme. The playing, polished, sinuously cool in Massenet,...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/2009

Bruckner Symphony No 2

Eliahu Inbal | Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

Here is a tangled web, indeed. Bruckner's intense and radiant Second Symphony in a trio of performances each of which...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/1989

Mozart Violin Concertos Nos. 4 & 5

Anne-Sophie Mutter | Oscar Shumsky | Philharmonia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti | Scottish Chamber Orchestra | Yan Pascal Tortelier

Edward Greenfield gave a warm welcome to Anne-Sophie Mutter's LP coupling of the two D major Concertos. They have splendid...

Reviewed in issue 3/1984