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Ansermet plays Stravinsky

‘A new and very exciting page in gramophone history’ was how Gramophone’s Alec Robertson described Ernest Ansermet’s first complete Petrushka....

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 2/2001

Stravinsky Orchestral Works

Stokowski did not record a great deal of Stravinsky's music, but he left no less than eight versions of The...

Reviewed in issue 5/1993

Isaac Missa Paschalis a 5

Isaac's discography has seen a marked upturn in the last year, and is here increased further by Rebecca Stewart and...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 1/2000

Sibelius Lemminkaïnen Legends, Op 22

It's a pity that the popularity of ''The swan of Tuonela'', and to a lesser extent ''Lemminkainen's return'', has led...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 8/1987

Schubert Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1

These four discs bring us the last seven, best-known piano sonatas plus the earlier A major work heralding Schubert's growth...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 11/1991

Tveitt Baldur's Dreams; Telemarkin

The textual history of Tveitt’s ‘melodramatic ballet’ Baldur’s Dreams is highly convoluted. Composed between 1934 and 1937, it was performed...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2004

Field Piano Concertos

After the liquid urbanity of his first four concertos in the keys of E flat and A flat, how the...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 2/1997

Bach; Bartok Violin Sonatas

Midori’s Bach is wonderfully suave and well ordered. Even during the most complex chordal passages in the Fugue, her tone...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 4/2008

Vivaldi Dorilla in Tempe

The ball of twine usually required to thread one's way through the maze of most baroque opera plots need not,...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 2/1995

Hindemith Sancta Susanna, etc

Sancta Susanna is one of the three early stage works Hindemith composed in the wake of the First World War,...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1998

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