Schubert Winterreise

Both Matthias Goerne and Alfred Brendel have recorded Winterreise before, Goerne with Graham Johnson, Brendel with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Their coming...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/2004

Mozart Orchestral Works

When the Posthorn Serenade has prompted so many excellent versions recently, on CD as well as LP (see above), it...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1986

Zemlinsky Lyric Symphony/Quartet No 3

What I imagine happened here was that a live performance of the Lyric Symphony in Prague was so well received...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1996

Kronos Quartet Howl, USA

The organization that was “as close as your nearest telephone” is now as close as your nearest CD player –...

Reviewed in issue 11/1996

Baroque Oboe Concertos

This is not a record for the purists but, accepted for what it offers, it is an enjoyable one. The...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 4/1988

Raitio Queen of the Flowers

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 8/2003

Bach Cantatas Vol.18

Ten years on and we can now relive every second of an unrepeatable musical marathon. Celebrating the new millennium (and...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/2010

Nielsen Aladdin

So far Nielsen's music to Adam Oehlenschlager's Aladdin has been known only from the (relatively familiar) seven-movement suite, Op. 34,...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 5/1993

Rózsa/Schurmann Cello Concertos

Premiered in 1969 by Janos Starker, Miklos Rozsa’s Cello Concerto is a substantial, concentrated and (above all) superbly accomplished creation....

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/1996

Grechaninov Piano Trios

Composed in 1906, Grechaninov’s First Piano Trio is a typical product of Russia’s ‘Silver Age’: typical in its expert, school-of-Rimsky...

Reviewed in issue 13/1997