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Shostakovich Cello Concerto No 1; Walton Cello Concerto

Cellist Jamie Walton offers William Walton’s Concerto with an exceptional bonus: as well as playing the original 1956 version with...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/2011

Denisov Music for Cello

Edison Denisov is a versatile, not to say chameleon-like composer, whose skills have been turned in many directions. Some of...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1994

Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5; Violin Concerto

From the opening flourishes, played virtually a tempo, with minimal rhetorical grandeur, this is the straightest, most expressively austere reading...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/1998

Susato Danserye selections & their vocal concordances

Tielman Susato's dance collection of 1551 has always been a favourite for performers of renaissance instruments. That is not because...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/1987

Dubra Hail Queen of Heaven

In this so-called postmodern age (and in the case of Latvian composer Rihards Dubra, a post-Soviet age of religious freedom),...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 2/2010

Szymanowski Symphony No 3 'Song of the Night'; Violin Concerto No 1

Boulez’s initiation into the music of Szymanowski, as recalled on the fascinating bonus-disc interview, was during a wartime recital by...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2010

John Ogdon A Liszt Recital

John Ogdon was a pianist of awe-inspiring natural talent, one of the most gifted British pianists of this century. His...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 7/1998

Mendelssohn Paulus, Op 36

The renewed interest in Mendelssohn’s oratorios continues apace with another recording of his Paulus. Herreweghe steers something of a middle...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1996

Brass at La Sauve-Majeure

The players consist of a French group, the Ensemble des Cuivres d'Aquitaine based on Bordeaux and directed by Jean-Francois Dion,...

Reviewed in issue 4/1983

Kancheli Mourned by the Wind; Simi

When I interviewed Kancheli six years ago, he spoke of his ideal performers essaying a work ‘in one breath’, and...

Reviewed by Arved Ashby in issue: 13/2005

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