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Tansman Orchestral Works

The Variations sur un thème de Frescobaldi (1937) exist in two versions: the original for full orchestra and – following...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2006

Britten Orchestral & Vocal Works

These are historical documents of importance from the Britten-Pears Library that are at last being allowed into the public domain....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1996

Liszt Piano Works, Vol. 6

The only really familiar pieces on this CD will be the Liebestod transcription, the Gounod Faust Waltz, the Don Juan...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 12/1990

Mother and Child

Tenebrae aims to create ‘an ethereal mood of contemplation’. Towards this end their concerts of medieval, Renaissance and contemporary devotional...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 10/2003

Soprano Arias from Italian Operas

Though the name Miriam Gauci does not quite go to the tune of Mirella Freni, it and the voice and...

Reviewed in issue 11/1992

Vivaldi & Friends

The latest of Avie’s reissues of recordings by Cleveland-based Baroque orchestra Apollo’s Fire was first issued on the Canadian label...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 2/2011

Britten Vocal and Instrumental Works

A chronologically wide-ranging Britten programme performed with unerring sensitivity and much quiet insight. The Movement for wind sextet (here receiving...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/1996

Monteverdi Sweet Torment

I Fagiolini’s previous Monteverdi offerings have been warmly welcomed, preserving something of the ensemble’s memorable live performances. Given their spirited...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 13/2009

Cabanilles Batalles, Tientos & Passacalles

Jordi Savall’s new ‘own-brand’ label certainly likes to package its CDs attractively, with this one coming in a glossy little...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 13/1998

Shostakovich Symphony No. 7

I feel about the Vienna Symphony and Inbal's Leningrad much as I did about their Shostakovich Tenth (9/92)—''deeply felt, well...

Reviewed in issue 4/1993

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