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Fireplay Percussion Works

This is a corker of a disc. I cannot imagine anyone who responds to top-notch virtuosity not being caught up...

Reviewed in issue 4/1995

Tchaikovsky Chamber Works

The prize-winning Keller Quartet have already given us Tchaikovsky's First and Second Quartets (also on Erato), and I was glad...

Reviewed in issue 10/1994

Schumann (Der) Rose Pilgerfahrt

This long-neglected fairy folk-tale of self-sacrificing mother-love was first rescued by Chandos four years ago in an engagingly fresh and...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 7/1999

Birtwistle The Mask of Orpheus

I wouldn’t normally make such a recommendation, but can I earnestly suggest that, at least for a first hearing of...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1997

Bach Mass in B minor

Herreweghe returns after ten years to re-record a work that did much to bring his distinctive approach to Bach performance...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 5/1998

Bach Epiphany Mass

This two-disc set contains four vocal works by Bach, set in the context of an Epiphany Mass ‘as it might...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1999

Tavener Choral Works

To be sure, if John Tavener’s reputation were to rest solely on his unaccompanied choral music and nothing else, then...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 1/2001

Beethoven Symphony No 9; Coriolan Overture

This is a famous and famously successful recording of the Ninth, keenly felt and finely honed after the manner of...

Reviewed in issue 5/1995

The Art of Marian Anderson

Marian Anderson's fame was immense and very special: a recently published bibliography, for instance, lists over 1,200 items, books and...

Reviewed in issue 4/1986

Mochizuki (La) Chambre Claire

Misato Mochizuki was born in Tokyo in 1969. By the age of 13 she was premièring her own compositions for...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 12/2003

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