Jessye Norman Song Recital

Recorded live in June last year at the Hohenems Festival in Austria, this vividly conveys the electricity of a Jessye...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/1988

Mathias Concertos

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1995

Schubert Winterreise

The flood of performances on disc of this cycle never seems to subside. The two new ones under consideration present...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1997

Weiss, S Lute Music Vol. 2

The majority of Silvius Leopold Weiss’s c600 extant works for lute consist of Baroque dance suites in typical mixed Italian/French/German...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 1/2010

Winter Clarinet Concerto; Symphonies 2 & 3

Mozart would have loved this record. He loathed his contemporary Peter von Winter and would be amused to discover that...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/2005

Filtsch; Gutmann; Mikuli Piano Works

Polish pianist Hubert Rutkowski has previously given us world-premiere recordings of music by Chopin’s friend and pupil Julian Fontana. There...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 1/2011

Siegmeister Piano Works, Volume 2

Elie Siegmeister had a multi-faceted career in American music as composer, performer, writer and educationalist, but his music has not...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 9/2000

Beethoven arr Mahler Symphony No 9, 'Choral'

Even as the ink was drying on the page, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony was testing to breaking-point the mechanics of the...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/2010

Shostakovich Orchestral Works

Ashkenazy's new Shostakovich Tenth stakes a strong claim to the centre ground, and given its depth of feeling, its consistent...

Reviewed in issue 1/1992

Zelenka Choral Works

The present selection from Zelenka's large corpus of church music—over 20 masses, two requiems, three Passion oratorios and three Good...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 5/1992