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Review of (The) Ying Quartet play LifeMusic

(The) Ying Quartet play LifeMusic

Dark Vigil, written just after the Columbine High School shootings, is a meditation on the emotional turmoil of adolescence and...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 13/2004

Review of Whitlock Organ Works, Vol.1

Whitlock Organ Works, Vol.1

I suspect the discs which will comprise this series of Complete Organ Works are going to be padded out with...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 4/1997

Review of Debussy & Ravel Ballet Music

Debussy & Ravel Ballet Music

A vital element for an enduring Daphnis, for me, is not the capacity of the climaxes to overwhelm with decibels...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/1991

Review of Mozart (Die) Entführung aus dem Serail

Mozart (Die) Entführung aus dem Serail

If you are strapped for cash, or even if you are not, this is a real bargain, just about as...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Review of Schubert Complete Lieder, Vol. 9

Schubert Complete Lieder, Vol. 9

For once my enthusiasm for a disc in the Hyperion Schubert Edition is somewhat limited. Indeed this CD's drawbacks bring...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1991

Review of Bruckner Symphony No 8

Bruckner Symphony No 8

One of the hallmarks of the finest Kempe performances was the euphony of the sound and the ease of the...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2000

Review of Rawsthorne Symphonies Nos 1 - 3

Rawsthorne Symphonies Nos 1 - 3

What a valuable and rewarding release! Dedicated Anglophiles will recall that Sir John Pritchard’s account of Rawsthorne’s First Symphony originally...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 2/1996

Review of Gubaidulina (The) Canticle of the Sun

Gubaidulina (The) Canticle of the Sun

Chandos released an impressive disc of The Canticle of the Sun by the Danish National Choir with David Geringas earlier...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 11/2004

Review of Schubert Piano Works, Vol. 2

Schubert Piano Works, Vol. 2

Again, as with the first disc which I reviewed in April in this recently launched pilgrimage through Schubert's last six...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 12/1988

Review of Berlioz Romeo et Juliette/Nuits d'Ete

Berlioz Romeo et Juliette/Nuits d'Ete

The trouble with Romeo et Juliette is that we have been spoilt by the versions by Davis (Philips) and Dutoit...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1993


 

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