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Mozart Piano Concertos Nos 9 & 25

There is something specially attractive about Richard Goode’s collaborations with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. They are occasional and the recordings...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 10/1998

Ravel Mélodies

Despite the enormous popularity of Ravel’s music, many of his songs remain comparatively little known and seldom recorded. This collection...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 2/1997

Jacquet de la Guerre Harpsichord Works

Elisabeth Jacquet (Couperin’s senior by three years) was a remarkable girl. A member of a family of musicians, at the...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1999

Liszt Piano Works, Vol.27

Was there anything in this world, whether seen, read, heard, or merely divined, that didn't set Liszt's musical imagination alight?...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1994

David Sawer Brynan Wood

Byrnan Wood is the first full-scale orchestral composition by the young British composer David Sawer (b. 1961), whose piano work...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/1996

Melgaz/Morago Motets

Recordings of Portuguese polyphony of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries are certainly proliferating like field mushrooms after a...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 11/1994

Twentieth Century American Song-Cycles

An enjoyable recital, showing the inter-relatedness of American song. Comtois is particularly attuned to the folk-influenced cycles of Ginastera and...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 9/1998

Brahms/Sibelius/Stenhammer Lieder

Listening to the youthful tone and secure technique exhibited on this recital, it seems hard to credit that Hagegard is...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1999

Albéniz Iberia, Bks 1-4

Iberia, one of the great monuments of the piano repertoire, not only makes enormous technical demands on the performer –...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 13/1998

Brahms; Schumann Piano Quintets

Uneven coupling from a young all-Flemish partnership. They’re at their best in the less emotionally demanding Schumann, Komen especially confident...

Reviewed by mquinn in issue: 10/1998

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