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Pavel Lisitian (born 1911)

Even today the true stature of Lisitsian has not been fully acknowledged (for instance he doesn't get a mention even...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1993

Wetz Symphony No. 3

Reviewing Richard Wetz’s Second Symphony (9/00), Andrew Achenbach was intrigued by its style (‘a hybrid of Bruckner and Liszt’) but...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Baroque Concertos

The Durante and the Double Harpsichord Concerto ''have never been recorded before'', so we are told by an annotator who...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 6/1986

Mozart Don Giovanni

This must be the most ‘transferred’ set in recording history. Now, through the magic of Ward Marston, master of restoration,...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Korngold (The) Sea Hawk

Hard on the heels of William Stromberg’s admirable Naxos set (9/07) of Korngold’s towering score for The Sea Hawk (1940)...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 1/2008

(La) Trompette Retrouvée

Arthur Butterworth, composer and former principal-trumpet of Barbirolli's Hallé Orchestra, once lamented to me about the restricted use of the...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/2007

Widor Organ Symphonies Nos 9 and 10

ASV’s six-disc series of the Widor symphonies has featured several organists and organs with varying degrees of success, and the...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 2/2006

Contemporary Trumpet Music

The most striking aspect of the trumpet's extraordinary renaissance in the last 40 years is the extent to which composers'...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 4/1994

Brahms/Dvorák Orchestral Works

Will there be a new fashion in coupling Brahms symphonies with overtures? Dvorak overtures? This is the second First Symphony...

Reviewed in issue 6/1993

Hochreither; Ramhaufski Gloria in Excelsis Deo

The Benedictine abbey at Lambach in Upper Austria was founded in 1056. Its library contains illuminated manuscripts of medieval music,...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 6/2008

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