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Rütti Alpha et Omega

My impression after a cursory first encounter with Carl Rutti’s choral music was that here was another in the mould...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/1996

Harrison The Perilous Chapel

Lou Harrison composes as if he were discovering the simplest materials for the first time. This 1940s anticipation of minimalism...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 2/1994

Schnittke/Stravinsky Piano Works

Schnittke's four-movement Sonata is a large-scale work, lasting almost 30 minutes. It is unlikely to persuade anyone who believes that...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/1991

Handel Concerti grossi, Op. 3

When I reviewed the LP of these performances I remarked that the playing, though crisp and lively, was a little...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1985

Philips Choral Works

In November 1993 I reviewed a recording of Peter Philips’s motetsÊby the Choir of Winchester Cathedral.ÊI was rather critical of...

Reviewed in issue 4/2002

Tchaikovsky Swan Lake

Ondrej Lenard and his Bratislava orchestra have already given us a complete Nutcracker on CD (9/91); notable for its vivacity...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1991

Echoes of a Waterfall

Subtitled ''Romantic Harp Music Of The 19th Century'', this disc brings us 11 salon pieces, several in variation form and...

Reviewed in issue 9/1986

Toscanini Collection, Vol.65

The Haffner Symphony is played in an amazingly romantic fashion for Toscanini, with many rubatos and other expressive devices which...

Reviewed in issue 11/1992

Schumann Lieder

This is one of those records – and I certainly haven't found too many of them – where the promise...

Reviewed in issue 11/1995

Ad vesperas Sancti Ludovici Regis Franciæ

This ensemble’s new offering is a re-creation of Vespers for the Feast of St Louis IX, King of France, taken...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 6/2006

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