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Bach Cantatas

This new disc from Joshua Rifkin and his Bach Ensemble is the sixth in a series which has its ups...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1991

Strozzi Arie, lamenti e cantate

This is a generous and rewarding collection of a composer better known, I suspect, for her gender than her music....

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2000

Einaudi (I) Giorni

Here’s a fourth disc of Ludovico Einaudi courtesy of BMG Ricordi. In contrast to the ensemble arrangements of ‘Eden Roc’...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 4/2003

Brahms Serenades

I have been taken to task by two friends who admire Kertesz's recordings of the two Serenades (Decca Weekend), and...

Reviewed in issue 5/1993

Wilde plays Brahms

Some composers’ works (for example Haydn’s, Chopin’s and Liszt’s) sound well when heard in a non-stop 60-70 minute sequence, despite...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 7/2009

Lalo/Saraste Orchestral Works

Warhorses, strong in staying power, are rarely noted also for finesse; and much the same is true of their musical...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 1/1986

Goehr Arianna

The title-page of Arianna describes it as a “lost opera by Monteverdi, composed again by Alexander Goehr”. Precisely. At its...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1998

Gadenstätter Comic Sense

As 38-year-old Austrian composer Clemens Gadenstätter sees it, ‘Comedy is no laughing matter’. It is from a Rabelaisian perspective of...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 8/2005

From The Street

Ivana Gavric´’s debut disc offered an intense, idiomatic account of Janácek’s In the Mists that made me curious as to...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2011

Iglesias, A - Broken Embraces OST

The tone of Pedro Almodóvar’s new film, a heady cocktail of ecstasy and neurosis, has been captured brilliantly by composer...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 12/2009

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