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Cliffe; d'Erlanger Romantic Violin Concertos, Vol 10

Two neglected violin concertos, in the same key (D minor), and written within a few years of one another, but...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 4/2011

Grange Dark Labyrinths

Those who recall an early 1980s Prom performance of Cimmerian Nocturne will know that Philip Grange has been a distinctive...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 3/2000

Berners (The) Triumph of Neptune suite; Moeran Sinfonietta

There are some fascinating connections between Beecham and Lord Berners. Both loved ballet; both inherited money and titles, although Berners’s...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 3/2009

Beethoven/Brahms/Weber Works for Cello & Piano

Performing chamber music successfully is all about compromise, ‘give and take’ and shared chemistry, and although Solomon and Gregor Piatigorsky...

Reviewed in issue 11/1999

S. Wagner Schwarzschwanenreich

Schwarzschwanenreich (''Realm of the Black Swan'') is that dark chamber of the human psyche in which a woman is driven...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/1995

British Light Classics II

Reviewing the first Warner ‘British Light Classics’ (8/04) I declared that, if you wanted just one such collection, that should...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 8/2005

R. Strauss Orchestral Works

Long gone is the time when one needed to refer to Strauss's Alpensinfonie as 'rarely performed'. It has had several...

Reviewed in issue 8/1990

Lutoslawski Preludes and Fugues for 13 Solo Strings

Preludes and Fugues (1970­72) is one of Lutos¹awski’s most radical and complex works‚ written at a time when he seems...

Reviewed in issue 1/2002

Françaix plays Françaix

You may well feel like invoking the Trade Descriptions Act when Wergo blandly announce, on the sleeve, ''Detailed information enclosed'',...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 1/1992

Vaughan Williams Symphonies

Bearing in mind the conspicuous success of this partnership's Teldec account of VW's Sixth Symphony (8/91), the present generous new...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 2/1994

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