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Zodiac - Capilla Flamenca

For their latest offering, Capilla Flamenca place some of the Ars subtilior’s most famous pieces (those by Ciconia, Cordier and...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 13/2005

Hildegard von Bingen Celestial Light

All-female ensembles are decidedly ‘in’: after Vox Feminae, Discantus and Anonymous 4, here comes Tapestry, a four-member Boston-based group, founded...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 7/1998

Organ Dreams, Vol 4

The church of St Nikolai boasts a new (2003), Dutch-built organ, a generously-appointed three-manual instrument, designed on French Romantic lines...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 4/2005

Prokofiev Symphony No 6; Stravinsky Petrushka

The Sixth is Prokofiev's greatest symphony (as RL has been claiming for years) though it remains, inexplicably, among his least...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/1994

Holbrooke Chamber Works

The history behind Joseph Holbrooke’s Clarinet Quintet in G certainly weaves a tangled musicological web! The work has its roots...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 2/2003

Chopin (The) Complete Waltzes

Presenting them in their published order, followed by the 11 posthumous waltzes with and without opus numbers, Ingrid Fliter sets...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2009

Bruckner Symphony No 7

Eliahu Inbal has put all Brucknerians in his debt with his recordings of the first versions of the Third, Fourth...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 8/1986

Wagner Overtures and Preludes

What is so special about Karajan’s digital recordings that they are reissued at full price and, ungenerously in this case,...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/1996

Achron Golem Suite; Violin Concerto

Joseph Achron’s identity as a pioneering Jewish composer was more extensive and ran deeper than his Hebrew Melody,/I> and Hebrew...

Reviewed by Lawrence Johnson in issue: 1/2004

Stravinsky The Rite of Spring; Les Noces

Consider Stravinsky’s Russian phase, and the three great ballets automatically spring to mind; Les noces (“The wedding”), however, tends to...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/1996

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