Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5

With speeds fast but never breathless and with the most vivid recording yet given to this favourite symphony, this is...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1985

Medtner Piano Works

Hamish Milne’s distinguished Medtner cycle commenced in 1977 but has recently taken wing‚ with this ninth volume quickly following Volume...

Reviewed in issue 13/2001

Furtwängler in Stockholm

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 3/1997

Beethoven & Schnittke: String Quartets

Alfred Schnittke's Third String Quartet, one of his most absorbing works, is a meditation on how a composer of today...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1990

Mahler Symphony No 5 (arr Briggs)

With numerous Mahler performances, live and recorded, it’s questionable whether this transcription is as enjoyable or has the same impact...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 1/1999

From Jewish Life

Although titled “From Jewish Life” this beautifully played programme does, I fear, give a rather one-sided picture of what Jewish...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 9/2008

Wallace Maritana

All the histories and encyclopaedias tell us that there were no ‘successful’ operas composed in Britain between Purcell’s Dido and...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 8/1997

Vivaldi Violin Concertos

This is a very attractive disc of violin concertos by Vivaldi. And they have been carefully chosen, furthermore, not just...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1993

Ode for St Cecilia's Day

Verses in praise of music for St Cecilia's Day were fashionable in the seventeenth century but in poetic inspiration none...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1987

Brahms Piano Concerto No.2

The first movement of Brahm's B flat Piano Concerto is marked Allegro non troppo, but it is not untraditional to...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/1986