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Hindemith Orchestral Works

Hindemith’s own 1956 account of his Konzertmusik, Op 50 – (Columbia, 3/58 – sadly nla) – has never been bettered...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Balfe Songs

The days are long gone when Victorian ballads could expect to arouse wide attention. Yet things have surely gone too...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 10/2011

Simon Barere at Carnegie Hall, Vol.3

I'm sure RL will be as glad as I to find that he was unduly pessimistic, just under four years...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 5/1991

Scene d'Amore

Soile Isokoski has established herself as one of the leading Mozart and Strauss sopranos of the day. In this new...

Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 13/2008

Berners Songs and Music for Solo Piano

Lord Berners was born in Bridgnorth, Shropshire as Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson but succeeded to his baronetcy in 1919 and left...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/2000

Abel Mr Abel's Fine Airs

Carl Friedrich Abel is usually thought of as a genial symphonist much in the mould of his London concert-promoting business...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 1/2008

Shostakovich Symphony No 5. Cello Concerto

No one recording of Shostakovich's most often-recorded symphony can be all things to all people, but this one has been,...

Reviewed in issue 8/1993

G. Bush Music for Wind and Piano

Geoffrey Bush is a much respected composer, with a very decent list of recordings to his credit; even so, I...

Reviewed in issue 3/1987

Walter Frye Vocal Works

Walter Frye may be something of a key-figure in the middle years of the fifteenth century. His Ave regina celorum...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 6/1993

Kubelík conducts Kubelík

Most genuinely re-creative interpreters are also composers, and so it's particularly interesting to experience the 'first-hand' ideas of musicians whose...

Reviewed in issue 2/1995

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