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Review of Tchaikovsky Ballet Suites

Tchaikovsky Ballet Suites

Sixty-five minutes of the ripest Tchaikovsky ballet music, in lively performance and recorded with sumptuous Telarc amplitude, in Watford Town...

Reviewed in issue 2/1988

Review of Britten (The) Poet's Echo; Prokofiev (5) Poems of Anna Akhmatova; Wagner Wesendonck Lieder

Britten (The) Poet's Echo; Prokofiev (5) Poems of Anna Akhmatova; Wagner Wesendonck Lieder

In her first CD recital, Susan Bullock – now an Isolde, Elektra, and much else where opera is concerned –...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/2007

Review of The Apocryphal Bach Motets

The Apocryphal Bach Motets

For anyone with a soft spot for Bach's motets, it must be a source of some disappointment that there are...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 1/1995

Review of Walton Film Music, Volume 1

Walton Film Music, Volume 1

Where Walton's scores for Henry V and Richard III have had extensive recordings, the one he did for Hamlet, the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1990

Review of Mozart Concert and Opera Arias

Mozart Concert and Opera Arias

Mozart's stray concert and opera arias are being rounded up this year as never before: Emma Kirkby's recital, recorded in...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 4/1991

Review of Dvorák Piano Trio No 3

Dvorák Piano Trio No 3

Recent recordings of Dvorak's F minor Trio have come in boxed sets, which not everyone may want. So this new...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 12/1984

Review of Vasks String Quartets Nos. 1-3

Vasks String Quartets Nos. 1-3

The Vasks discography continues to grow at a healthy rate, and this uncommonly fine release from the prize-winning Navarra Quartet,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 5/2011

Review of Kasemets Chamber Works

Kasemets Chamber Works

Born in Estonia in 1919, Udo Kasemets has long been resident in Canada. His music—to judge by the three recent...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/1995

Review of Strauss, R (Der) Rosenkavalier

Strauss, R (Der) Rosenkavalier

Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier is surely unique in its voluptuous orchestral introduction, opening with soaring virtuoso horns (Strauss’s father was a...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/2011

Review of Prokofiev; Shostakovich Violin Concertos No 1

Prokofiev; Shostakovich Violin Concertos No 1

Gone are the days when Shostakovich’s First Concerto meant one or other frequently inaccessible David Oistrakh LP. Today’s young virtuosi...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 5/2006

 

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