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Review of Martinu Flute Trio; Flute Sonatas

Martinu Flute Trio; Flute Sonatas

The works brought together on this new disc do not constitute Bohuslav Martin≤’s complete chamber music for flute – the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 13/2011

Review of Cathedral & Organ Music

Cathedral & Organ Music

The record is designed as a tribute to Herbert Sumsion, organist and choirmaster of Gloucester Cathedral for most of his...

Reviewed in issue 3/1990

Review of Kodály, Smetana & Dvorák String Quartets

Kodály, Smetana & Dvorák String Quartets

Testament continue the good work in restoring the Hollywood Quartet recordings to currency and indeed bring one performance to the...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 5/1996

Review of Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

Mussorgsky’s suite depicts particular paintings (11, to be precise, by his late friend Viktor Hartmann); Sposalizio was inspired by Raphael’s...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 1/2011

Review of An Evening with Victoria De Los Angeles

An Evening with Victoria De Los Angeles

It would be only truthful to say that I approached this recital with some trepidation. Would it be difficult to...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1991

Review of Franck Organ Works

Franck Organ Works

This ‘spiritual journey’ could not be piloted by a more sympathetic guide than Olivier Latry, titulaire at Notre-Dame, Paris. He...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 12/2005

Review of Aciz & Galathea

Aciz & Galathea

During the first half of the 17th century the Spanish zarzuela, a play with a mixture of spoken and sung...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Review of Bartók Concerto for Orchestra; The Miraculous Mandarin

Bartók Concerto for Orchestra; The Miraculous Mandarin

No one dispenses musical decadence as exquisitely as Riccardo Chailly. In The Miraculous Mandarin‚ at the point where the hapless...

Reviewed in issue 1/2002

Review of Handel Trio Sonatas, Op 2

Handel Trio Sonatas, Op 2

It has taken the tercentenary year (and the anticipation of it) to repair the nelgect of these works on record—from...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 1/1986

Review of Du Mont Motets en dialogue

Du Mont Motets en dialogue

Henry Du Mont was an organist and composer who held a succession of important court appointments in France during the...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 9/1993


 

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