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Bartók Piano Concertos

Making Bartok's First Piano Concerto sound fun must have taken some doing, but Donohoe and Rattle have certainly managed it....

Reviewed in issue 11/1993

Heifetz Collection, 1917-72

''One of the great things about Jascha Heifetz,'' said violinist Aaron Rosand in a recent interview, ''... is that, musically...

Reviewed in issue 11/1994

Bartók; Eötvós; Kurtág Viola Works

Shafts of twilight fall across Peter Eotvos’s Replica for viola and orchestra much as they do in his opera Three...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 7/2000

Haydn String Quartets, Op 50 Nos 1-3

In 1787, Haydn referred to the progress of this set of quartets in letters to his publisher, Artaria. Conscious of...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 10/2004

Henze Voices - A Song Cycle

Henze's enormous song-cycle Voices (1973), is one of his most important and vital compositions. It is a product of the...

Reviewed in issue 12/1995

Grieg/Schumann Piano Concertos

This coupling may be well-tried but it remains a good and appropriate one, linking two lyrical Romantic concertos (of 19...

Reviewed in issue 10/1984

Vagn Holmboe String Quartets, Volume 3

The three works on this disc were written within two years (1964-6), yet are each of radically different character to...

Reviewed in issue 12/1997

Bruckner Symphony No 2

This is a really rather dreary account of Bruckner’s Second Symphony, said to have been recorded live in the Berlin...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1998

Dean, B Water Music

Whether in performance or on disc, Brett Dean’s stock has risen considerably this last decade, and this follow-up to an...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 11/2009

Handel Concerti Grossi

There is an appealing spring in the step of these performances of the first six concertos of Handel's great Op....

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1992

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