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Review of The Romantic Piano Concerto 58 - Pixis & Thalberg

The Romantic Piano Concerto 58 - Pixis & Thalberg

Hyperion’s ‘The Romantic Piano Concerto’ celebrates is 58th issue with these concertos including a first recording of Pixis’s Concertino in...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2012

Review of NIELSEN Little Suite Op 1 TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade for Strings

NIELSEN Little Suite Op 1 TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade for Strings

This Blu-ray disc is experimental, made with at least half an eye on techniques of recording. Living literally up to...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2012

Review of NIELSEN Symphonies Nos 2 & 3

NIELSEN Symphonies Nos 2 & 3

Notwithstanding the impact of Danish orchestral visits to the UK in the 1950s and of Robert Simpson’s classic book Carl...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2012

Review of MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 9 & 21

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 9 & 21

The misnamed Jeunehomme Concerto (we now know that Mozart wrote it for a Mlle Jenamy) was one of the outstanding...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2012

Review of LUTOSŁAWSKI Orchestral Works Vol IV

LUTOSŁAWSKI Orchestral Works Vol IV

The light and genial Little Suite of 1950 launches this Lutosławski CD, the character of the piece defined by the...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2012

Review of LORD Concerto for Group and Orchestra

LORD Concerto for Group and Orchestra

This is the now the third recording of the Concerto, following the 1969 premiere release (originally Harvest, subsequently on DVD)...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2012

Review of Alison Balsom - Sound the Trumpet

Alison Balsom - Sound the Trumpet

An interview in the booklet for this disc takes a long time telling us why Alison Balsom has picked up...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2012

Review of DELIUS French Masterworks

DELIUS French Masterworks

This is the fourth issue in the series of discs from Danacord covering Delius’s works with orchestra, respectively Danish, Norwegian...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2012

Review of DEBUSSY Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien - Suite SCHUMANN Symphony No 4

DEBUSSY Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien - Suite SCHUMANN Symphony No 4

Given that Guido Cantelli’s career was cut tragically short by an air crash in 1956 (he was just 36 when...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2012

Review of CORELLI Concerti Grossi Op 6

CORELLI Concerti Grossi Op 6

Corelli’s reputation as one of the presiding geniuses of the early Baroque is extraordinary for being based on such a...

Reviewed in issue 07/2014


 

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