Great Voices of the Century John McCormack

(Anonymous) Orchestra | Edwin Schneider | Fritz Kreisler | Gerald Moore | John McCormack | Josef Pasternack | Lucrezia Bori | Spencer Clay | Walter B. Rogers

Here, at all events, is a capital selection. ''To show the tenor, as it were, in the round'' is the...

Reviewed in issue 5/1993

Bartók/Kodály Hungarian dances

Hugh Wolff | Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

A most enjoyable programme, performed with winning poise and tangible relish. Any minor reservations I have are almost exclusively concerned...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 5/1994

Philip Martin: Once more with feeling...

Philip Martin is a fine pianist, as anyone will attest who has in their collection his invaluable account of the complete...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2017

Franck Symphony. Symphonic Variations

Jean-Philippe Collard | Michel Plasson | Toulouse Capitole Orchestra

A fascinating comparison. Bernstein's fine DG performance has the faults of his qualities: it is hugely urgent, but at times...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1987

Beethoven Overtures; Minuets; Dances

Academy of St Martin in the Fields | Kurt Masur | Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Neville Marriner

It is a pleasure to find a company using its back-catalogue for reissues as imaginatively as Philips are doing in...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1994

Grieg Complete Symphonic Wks Vol 1

Cologne Symphony Orchestra | Eivind Aadland

The launch of a third new survey of Grieg’s orchestral music in the last decade, following Bjarte Engeset’s for Naxos...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2011

Merry Christmas from Vienna

Cardiff Festival Choir | Gilbert Seeley | Matthew Halls | Michael Bolton | Oregon Repertory Singers | Owain Arwel Hughes | Plácido Domingo | Robert Court | Salisbury Brass Ensemble | Salisbury Cathedral Choir

Despite the presence of the Symphony Orchestra and the Boys’ Choir, there is nothing particularly Viennese about “Merry Christmas from...

Reviewed in issue 12/1997

Liszt: Symphonic Poems

Kurt Masur | Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

These are strong, exciting and idiomatic performances. Masur draws impassioned playing from the Gewandhaus orchestra in the best known of...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/1988

Nicolai Malko

Nicolai Malko | Philharmonia Orchestra

It is sad that Nicolai Malko, from 1926 the Chief Conductor of the Leningrad Philharmonic and the first interpreter of...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1996

MacDowell Symphonic Poems

Karl Krueger | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

MacDowell has been typecast by his charming piano miniatures; we no more expect him to have written symphonic poems than...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1999