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Nielsen Orchestral Works

Both artists come to the Nielsen Concerto for the second time: Arve Tellefsen recorded it with Herbert Blomstedt in the...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1990

Bruckner Motets

The slightly hazy, distanced sound of the LP is clarified and brought into sharper focus here. The strengths of the...

Reviewed in issue 7/1986

British Choral Works

Herbert Howells's Requiem is in one sense a sketch for his beautiful Hymnus Paradisi (in which much of the material...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/1983

Boito Mefistofele

Mephistopheles is the spirit who denies, critics on the side of the angels, must affirm. So: the opera itself (in...

Reviewed in issue 8/1988

Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2

How pleasant it would be to welcome a new recording of this mighty Concerto with open arms. But alas here...

Reviewed in issue 9/1990

Stravinsky Oedipus Rex; (Les) Noces

Les noces is the most emphatically Russian of Stravinsky’s early masterpieces, rooted in the soil and the customs of peasant...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 13/2010

Berg (3) Orchesterstucke; Altenberg Lieder

Alban Berg had reached his late twenties before striking out on his own compositional path. Even then the twin influences...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/2010

Beethoven Chamber Works

When recording the F major Sonata, Op. 5 No. 1 and Ghost Trio at his Prades Festival in the summer...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1994

Puccini La Rondine

Molinari-Pradelli v. Maazel (CBS), Moffo v. Te Kanawa, Barioni v. Domingo: no contest, surely? I'm not so sure. For a...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1990

Vaughan Williams Tudor Portraits; Variants of Dives & Lazarus

First heard at the 1936 Norwich Festival (at a concert which also featured the world premiere of Britten’s remarkable Our...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/1998

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