Dusapin Medeamaterial

Medeamaterial was designed to form a double bill with Purcell's Dido and Aeneas—or even, more specifically, with that opera's culminating...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/1993

Barley (The) Silver Swan

Cellists like to get together to form multi-cello ensembles; in making a disc in which he’s the sole performer, Matthew...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 13/2003

Vaughan Williams Where Hope is Shining

The release schedule of Albion Records (the recording arm of the RVW Society) shows no sign of slackening, and although...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 4/2009

Shostakovich Symphony No 11

Despite the rawness and occasional congestion of the sound this is a performance of extraordinary vehemence. There is an element...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/1994

Brahms/Dvorák Chamber Works

Leonskaja and the Alban Berg Quartet face considerable competition here, and not least quantatively, from Ranki and colleagues on Hungaroton/Conifer...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 10/1988

Chopin Piano Works

Though observing that Chopin's style of piano playing was sufficiently personal and elusive almost to defy description, the late Arthur...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 2/1992

Bartók: Orchestral Works

Soulless Bartok well-packaged, well-displayed but barely score-deep. Consider the ''Elegia'' from the Concerto for Orchestra. Bartok's 'vale of tears' is...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 1/1991

David Oistrakh

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/2003

Borodin/Tchaikovsky String Quartets

The Brodsky Quartet has a good feeling for the structure of both these works; it would be still more effectively...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1991

Bach Motets

There is no shortage of currently available recordings of Bach's motets and there is no clear choice between them, either....

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1989