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Fauré Works for Violin and Piano

I found the sound here a little off-putting. The A major Sonata opens with a passionate and fairly extended piano...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 10/1994

Philippe Jaroussky - Opium

This is beautiful but it takes a bit of getting used to. Philippe Jaroussky’s countertenor (he has often been called...

Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 5/2009

Ravel/Saint-Saëns/Chaminade Piano Trios

Having settled in Canada in 1971, that excellent pianist Valerie Tryon has been absent for too long from the British...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 3/1994

Cherubini Medea

Medea‚ or Medée to give the work its proper title‚ has had a chequered career on stage and on disc....

Reviewed in issue 2/2002

Sibelius Symphonies Nos 5-7 etc.

Paavo Berglund always turns in musicianly, conscientious performances that command respect but to which I very rarely return for pleasure....

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 1/1997

Webern/Berg/Schoenberg Chamber Works

You’ll see the Wind Quintet described as one of Schoenberg’s most forbidding early exercises in 12-tone technique, or as one...

Reviewed in issue 12/1996

Crumb Voice of the Whale

You ideally need two reviewers for this. Firstly the ‘stern, sober mind’, once evoked in a New Yorker column by...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 11/2002

Gershwin: Orchestral Works

This is an excellent recordings at any time, but there are some passages in Robert Russell Bennett's Porgy and Bess...

Reviewed in issue 8/1984

Roussel: Chamber Works

Albert Roussel was born in 1869, after Debussy but before Ravel, and died in the same year as the latter...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 10/1990

Voices of our Time - Barbara Bonney

‘Voices of our time’, the series title, may lead to some expectation that these will be in the form of...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/2004

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