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Tchaikovsky Piano Concertos Nos.1 & 3

It would be interesting to know what order of movements was chosen in making this recording. If the logical course...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1985

Stravinsky Firebird

Many of the reservations I had over the sound of the LP version of this complete Firebird recording disappear on...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1984

Schubert Die schöne Müllerin

Here is a real and most welcome bargain. This version has held a high place in the work's discography ever...

Reviewed in issue 9/1995

Unquiet Peace The Lied Between the Wars

A most intelligent and thought-provoking piece of programme-planning: Steven Blier is evidently America's Graham Johnson or Roger Vignoles. There's no...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1993

Bruckner Symphony No 4

The contrast between Karajan's two recordings of Bruckner's Romantic Symphony was always striking, the 1970 EMI version mistily, beautifully and...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/1994

Borodin/Tchaikovsky Symphonies

Just how brilliantly the vintage Philharmonia Orchestra could play in the mid 1950s comes out in almost every bar of...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1995

Gershwin Piano Concerto, etc

Wayne Marshall makes his first entry in the Piano Concerto and, in the space of a bar or two, I...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 4/1996

Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen - without words

The title of this CD is ''The Ring Without Words'' and it comprises a series of linked episodes from all...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1988

Chabrier (L') Etoile

Here, as they say, is a turn-up. The piece itself, for a start: a star that appears (also as they...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Harris Symphonies Nos 7 & 9

Harris held that music was valuable to society if it was created ‘as an authentic and characteristic culture of and...

Reviewed in issue 10/2002

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