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Virtuoso Works for Violin

Tedi Papavrami was born in Tirana, Jordan, an infant prodigy, mastering violin music of outlandish technical difficulty by the age...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/1991

Brahms (Ein) Deutsches Requiem

A version of Brahms’s German Requiem, fresh and concentrated, to confound even more strikingly than usual the jaundiced strictures notoriously...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/2001

Aho Rituals

Following the Luosto Symphony’s premiere (10/08), Kalevi Aho wanted to write on a smaller scale, for chamber orchestra. In the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 0/0

Haydn String Quartets, Opp. 77 & 103

Sony’s resident period-instrument ensemble certainly bring plenty of fire and virtuosity to Haydn’s last quartets. Both the scherzos in Op....

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Berlioz Orchestral Works

The Romeo excerpts and the ''Royal Hunt and Storm'' have been recorded so often that any new versions are going...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1995

Kreisler 1926-1927 Victor Recordings

Three excerpts from Dohnanyi's Ruralia hungarica are played on the second Biddulph disc, but otherwise no item in any of...

Reviewed in issue 12/1993

Scandinavian Contemporary a Cappella

Since Scandinavia comprises Norway, Denmark and Sweden only, the Finn Einojuhani Rautavaara (b. 1928) and Estonian Veljo Tormis (b. 1930)...

Reviewed in issue 4/1995

Nordgren Violin Concerto etc

When reviewing discs I like to be positive. If a piece pleases my ear, then “Well done” to composer (and...

Reviewed in issue 5/1997

Beethoven Masses

''This, for a start, is a sensible coupling'', and that, for a start, is a sensible point. It was made...

Reviewed in issue 8/1993

Byrd Complete Consort Music

Clever fellow, Byrd. Evidence of his legendary ability to survive as a Catholic and flourish at court in Elizabethan and...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 9/2011

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