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Wagner Rienzi

I was present at the second of the performances of this new production given at the Munich Festival in the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1996

Handel Faramondo

Faramondo (1738) was written after the remnants of the Opera of the Nobility and Handel’s opera company merged together...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 7/2009

Mahler Symphony No 9. Hartmann Symphony No 2 - Adagio

Christoph von Dohnanyi’s reputation for brisk, objectified Mahler is not borne out by this unexpectedly long-breathed and evidently long-pondered reading....

Reviewed in issue 6/1999

Bartók Orchestral Works

The four lavish canvases that make up Bartok's Pieces are virtually as much a 'concerto for orchestra' as the better-known...

Reviewed in issue 3/1994

Paris expers Paris - Ecole de Notre-Dame, 1170 - 1240

This is a fascinating selection of early polyphony from the great 11th- and 12th-century school of Notre-Dame in Paris. Some...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 1/2007

Rossini Instrumental Music

The highlights of this collection are the Budapest players’ vividly realised accounts of the rarely recorded wind and string Serenata...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/2009

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5; Piano Concerto No. 1

While Mengelberg’s partnerships with both the Concertgebouw and New York Philharmonic remain among music’s legends, his work with the Berlin...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/1998

Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1; Liszt Piano Sonata

Subtitled ‘acts of emancipation’‚ both these works shared a critical reception: one of scorn and incomprehension for their novelty. Endlessly...

Reviewed in issue 12/2001

Meriläinen Orchestral and Chamber Works

Now in his early sixties, Usko Merilainen is one of Finland's most respected composers, though his representation in the catalogue...

Reviewed in issue 11/1992

Delius - Orchestral Works

Plenty to enjoy here, not least some flexible, warm-hearted conducting from David Lloyd-Jones, whose Delian sympathies are not in doubt....

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/2004

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