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Ne me refuse pas

This is an attractive record and its appeal may well be felt before a note of it is heard. Many...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/2011

Dvorák Symphony No 9

Dohnanyi follows up the success of his brilliant and sympathetic account of the Dvorak Eighth Symphony (414 422-1DH, 2/86; CD...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1986

Mahler Symphony No 8

These recordings date from between 1976 and 1982. They were made in a studio of the House of Artists in...

Reviewed in issue 12/1985

Grieg Orchestral Works

Grieg was at one time conductor of the orchestra in his home town, and it would be pleasing to report...

Reviewed in issue 9/1993

Schnittke Esquisses

Esquisses (“Sketches”) was a ballet based on a conflation of Gogol’s best-known stories, put on at the Bolshoi in 1975...

Reviewed in issue 6/1998

Bach Cantatas

Philippe Herreweghe’s selective series of Bach cantata recordings has, for me, been a mixed bag, too often diminished in stature...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1998

Born of the Human Soul - Ciurlionis Piano Works

Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis (1875-1911) was a figure of crucial importance to Lithuania, and not just in music (he was also...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 11/1998

Hindemith Orchestral Works

Hindemith was rather fond of the theme and variations format, but the Four Temperaments must be one of his finest....

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/1993

Beethoven & Mozart Piano and Wind Quintets

Only last month I was hailing the new CBS version of this coupling ''as a clear first choice and likely...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1986

Romantic Piano Concerto - Volume 4

At the end of his balanced and informative sleeve-note Jeremy Nicholas suggests that ''there must always be a place for...

Reviewed in issue 3/1993

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