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Shchedrin (The) Enchanted Wanderer

Shchedrin’s 2002 “opera for the concert stage” tells, in highly condensed form, Leskov’s story of the archetypal Russian life (actually...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 7/2010

Mozart/Salieri Castrato Arias and Motets

Former soloist in the Vienna Boys’ Choir, Arno Raunig has kept and developed his soprano voice with an easy range...

Reviewed in issue 11/1998

Falla Atlántida; El Sombrero de tres picos

Not even the devoted efforts of Falla’s pupil Ernesto Halffter could succeed – despite putting together two distinct versions –...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 1/1997

Vivaldi: Viola d'amore concertos

The insert booklet's statement that the viola d'amore ''appeared as a solo instrument in six of his [Vivaldi's] concertos'' is...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 2/1987

Beethoven Works for Cello & Piano

This music certainly benefits from being heard on original instruments. The sound of the Christopher Clarke copy of a 1795...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 3/2000

Bax Works for Viola and Piano

No sooner had I welcomed Doris Lederer’s supple account of Bax’s Viola Sonata with Jane Coop than along comes a...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 1/2007

Suk Asrael

Vladimir Ashkenazy’s indefatigable enthusiasm for making music has latterly embraced unexpected corners of the repertoire and collaborations with orchestras and...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 5/2009

Casella Symphony No 1; Piano, Timpani and Percussion Concerto

I have long been – somewhat unfashionably, I suspect – an admirer of Alfredo Casella’s music (if not the man...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 13/2010

Bach Cantatas, Vol 21

The fourth cycle of cantatas, which constituted Vols 19 and 20, marked the end of Bach’s systematic liturgical ambitions. That...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2006

20th Century Percussion Works

Of the two audiences that this disc is aimed at—percussion fans and John Cage enthusiasts—it will be the latter who,...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 8/1989

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