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Arensky/Rimsky-Korsakov Chamber Works

With characteristic enterprise, the Nash Ensemble have disinterred two Russian chamber works that can be known to very few Western...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/1985

B.Herrmann The Devil and Daniel Webster

The popular 20-minute suite from The Devil and Daniel Webster was assembled shortly after the film's score won its Oscar...

Reviewed by rseeley in issue: 6/1994

Bach Goldberg Variations

Bach’s Goldberg Variations have been arranged for everything from string orchestra to accordion with varying degrees of success – but...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 3/2009

Salonen LA Variations

Esa­Pekka Salonen once told me in a private conversation that he considered composition and conducting to be essentially ‘two sides...

Reviewed in issue 12/2001

Verdi Falstaff

By all accounts the performances in May this year at the Barbican were among the most enjoyable of their kind...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/2004

Bach Keyboard Works

The two-disc set from which these concertos are taken comprised all seven and all three are adaptations from known works;...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 9/1992

Bruckner Symphony No 1; Hindemith Pittsburgh Symphony

Whatever has Hindemith’s Pittsburgh Symphony (1958) – the sixth and last he wrote – done to deserve such wretched treatment...

Reviewed in issue 1/1997

Confrey Piano Rolls

Musicologist Artis Wodehouse follows up her splendid Yamaha Disclavier realisations of piano roll recordings by George Gershwin and Jelly Roll...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 6/2003

Verdi Attila

Lamberto Gardelli's two readings of Attila, for Hungaroton/Conifer and Philips respectively, have such strongly contrasted basses in the title-role that...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/1990

Vaughan Williams Film Music, Volume 2

Directed by Michael Powell and written by Emeric Pressburger and Rodney Ackland, 49th Parallel (1941) was the Ministry of Information’s...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2004

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