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Shostakovich String Quartets Nos 2 & 3

With so many Shostakovich quartet integrales in progress, the cycle looks set to overtake Bartok’s as the twentieth century’s most...

Reviewed in issue 11/1999

Saint-Saens Symphonie No.3 'Organ' Op.78, Piano Concerto No.4 Op.44

Saint-Saëns’s Organ Symphony would be one of my desert island discs, and even here on the mainland it is a...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 9/2011

Schmitt, F Piano Works

The posthumous reputation of Florent Schmitt (1870‑1958), a respected outsider in French music, rests on works from early in his...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 4/2007

Yvonne Kenny at the Wigmore Hall

Turning up the files to see what the press had to say about the occasion, I found the Daily Telegraph...

Reviewed in issue 4/1985

Giordano Fedora

For myself there is only one Fedora (and of course I’m aware that from some quarters will come the instant...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/2011

Puccini Turandot

To have Callas, the most flashing-eyed of all sopranos as Turandot, is—on record at least—the most natural piece of casting....

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1987

Shostakovich Symphony 5; Fragments, Op. 42

Ashkenazy's first shot at Shostakovich is close to a bull's-eye. At least by comparison Bychkov (Philips) scores no better than...

Reviewed in issue 6/1988

Shostakovich Symphony No 4

Older hands may expect a heavier sonority in this music, the kind of sonic punch delivered by Ormandy and Previn,...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 2/2007

Corelli Quartets, Vol.4

This is the second of two CDs of Corelli's Opp. 3 and 4 Trio Sonatas played by the Purcell Quartet...

Reviewed in issue 8/1993

Youmans No, No, Nanette

The 1971 Broadway revival of Vincent Youmans’s landmark 1920s musical was a great success. Offering a stark contrast to shows...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 9/1999

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