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Szymanowski Piano Works

Possibly the only piece here that will be known to most music-lovers will be the third of the Op. 4...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 7/1991

American Orchestral Works

The Chadwick revival continues apace! Only in February I was welcoming a memorable (and outstandingly well-engineered) collection on the Reference...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/1996

Rachmaninov Works for Two Pianos

I suppose I asked for it. These performances have all the accent and colour, all the shape and dramatic flair...

Reviewed in issue 9/1992

Remembering Prague

Stepan Rak is a guitarist of amazing technical prowess who is obviously impatient with what are perceived as the expressive...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1988

Beecham conducts Favourite Overtures, Vol. 1

EMI's Beecham Edition has put the great conductor very much before the record-buying public again, but even though his pre-war...

Reviewed in issue 7/1993

Lord, J To Notice Such Things

“He was a man who used to notice such things” is the last line of the Thomas Hardy poem “Afterwards”,...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 5/2010

Verdi Macbeth

When these two sets first appeared in 1976, it was a close-run thing which to prefer, and I still find...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1986

Shostakovich The Golden Age

For sustained inspiration Shostakovich's first ballet score is no rival to Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet; neither is it as even...

Reviewed in issue 5/1994

Doris Soffel sings Lieder

Starting with an urgent Gretchen (has the wheel ever spun so fast?), the recital proceeds via an intense Szene aus...

Reviewed in issue 11/1998

French Orchestral Works

For La mer there are qualities here that seem very French: suppleness of rhythm; a certain grace and fluidity of...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/1992

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