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Klami Symphony No 2; Symphonie Enfantine

Uuno Klami’s Second Symphony (1945) is very different in character from its predecessor (1938). The First, also recorded by these...

Reviewed in issue 9/1996

Stravinsky Mavra & Chamber Works

Although beautifully recorded throughout, this imaginatively planned programme was taped at two very different Amsterdam venues: Paradiso in October 1995...

Reviewed in issue 10/1998

Berio Coro; Epifanie

This CD, in Orfeo’s historic Salzburg Festival series, offers radio recordings from the mid-1970s of two of Berio’s most ambitious...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/2005

Mahler Adagio from Symphony No. 10; Beethoven String Quartet No. 11

Combining finely honed performances with unimpeachable sound engineering and imaginative design, this state-of-the-art production deserves to transcend doubts about the...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 1/2012

Couperin Les Nations, Vol 1

No grand tour of the trio sonata literature would be complete without visiting the Les nations of François Couperin. The...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 5/2003

Hindemith/ Janácek/ Prokofiev Orchestral Works

Abbado’s mature style ‘in embryo’ together with a fairly impressive example of what Decca could achieve at the Kingsway Hall...

Reviewed in issue 3/1997

Schubert Piano Works, Vol. 6

Unlike many of his rivals, Michel Dalberto is not confining his Schubert cycle to the familiar mature composer. This Volume...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1993

Schubert Winterreise

Listening, as I have done, to these distinguished performances on the hottest day of the summer may seem incongruous, but...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1994

Respighi Church Windows; Brazilian Impressions

The four symphonic impressions which make up the Vetrate di chiesa (''Church Windows'') and the three movements of the Impressioni...

Reviewed in issue 5/1984

Brahms; Demopoulos; Mussorgsky Piano Works

Panayiotis Demopoulos is a young Greek composer-pianist who shows himself in this sharply contrasted recital to be an exceptionally sensitive...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2006

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