Mahler Symphony No 5

Nobody could accuse this performance of lacking intensity. In places the first two movements almost groan under the weight of...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 1/1993

Vivaldi Concerti per Vari Srumenti

Ensemble Zefiro is one of the most remarkable baroque bands to emerge during the last decade or so, though we...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 9/2000

Copland Symphonies

It was immediately after the premiere of Copland’s Organ Symphony (later revamped sans organ as Symphony No. 1) that the...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 6/1996

Shostakovich Orchestral Works

Rather than commemorate the 25th anniversary of the death of Shostakovich with a newly minted, squeaky-clean cycle of symphonies or...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 2/2001

Berg; Schoenberg; Webern String Quartets

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/2007

Elgar/Vaughan Williams Choral Music

If a long, deep sigh of contentment were acceptable as a critical review I would be very happy to leave...

Reviewed in issue 4/1992

Mussorgsky Boris Godunov

I find an appreciable improvement in sound quality here over the equivalent LPs, also the usual sense of increased immediacy;...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1985

Mahler Symphony No. 5

Jaap Van Zweden took up conducting in 1995 at the age of 35. A gifted Juilliard-trained violinist, he had spent...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/2008

Mozart Piano Concertos 15 & 16

These are larger-scaled readings than is usual in performances directed from the keyboard; RG appropriately and appreciatively called them ''symphonic''...

Reviewed in issue 7/1984

Dinu Pipatti Last Recital, Besançon, 1950

Apart from the two Schubert Impromptus, the programme of Lipatti's last recital consisted of works he'd recorded only some ten...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 12/1994