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Review of Dvorák Chamber Works

Dvorák Chamber Works

Dvorak's Serenade for strings has been so often coupled with his similarly titled work for wind that when a group...

Reviewed in issue 9/1987

Review of Telemann Concerto for Violin, 'Rehlinge'; Suite, 'La Bizarre'; Overture, 'Les Nations'

Telemann Concerto for Violin, 'Rehlinge'; Suite, 'La Bizarre'; Overture, 'Les Nations'

More entrancing Telemann suites – how the man kept them coming I just do not know. Here we have La...

Reviewed in issue 7/2002

Review of The Sweet Hereafter Original Soundtrack

The Sweet Hereafter Original Soundtrack

The winner of the Grand Prix and two other jury prizes at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, Atom Egoyan’s film...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Review of Dusapin Concertos

Dusapin Concertos

Even more than that of the symphony, the concerto repertoire has become an all-too-limited one – centering on a handful...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 9/2003

Review of Paganini: Works for violin and orchestra

Paganini: Works for violin and orchestra

Accardo continues his explorations of the lesser-known Paganini. The explorations reveal something you would by no means guess from the...

Reviewed in issue 4/1985

Review of McEwen Border Ballads

McEwen Border Ballads

A native of Hawick in the Borders, Sir John Blackwood McEwen (1868-1948) was one of a group of gifted composers...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/1994

Review of Lully (Les) Divertissements de Versailles

Lully (Les) Divertissements de Versailles

Things are looking good for Lully just now. Just a month or two after Christophe Rousset’s excellent recording of Persée...

Reviewed in issue 8/2002

Review of Choral Works

Choral Works

Josquin wrote two Masses on the famous tune L’homme arme. This is perhaps the more popular of the two, at...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Review of Haydn Piano Sonatas

Haydn Piano Sonatas

Let’s dispense with the least successful performance, that of Sonata No 53. Marie Rørbech tries to make the most of...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 1/2005

Review of Handel Semele

Handel Semele

Robert Carsen’s staging of Semele as a sort of modern-day British Royal Family scandal fresh from the pages of Hello!...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2009


 

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