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Earle Brown - A Life in Music Vol. 1

Unlike their jazz and rock colleagues, classical composers can be peculiarly cavalier about recording. I don’t mean about having CDs...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 3/2010

Saygun Viola Concerto; Elgar In the South

These three double-concertos on a single CD are unusually good value simply because the keyboard playing is so satisfying. Such...

Reviewed in issue 8/1985

Takemitsu In an Autumn Garden

Toru Takemitsu was the epitome of the supra­nationalist composer: born and based mainly in Japan‚ yet reaching out towards the...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

Rameau; Campra Cantatas

Rameau’s secular chamber cantatas are early works, written before he got his longed-for chance to compose for the stage. While...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 13/2007

Stockhausen Stimmung

A Stockhausen recording not emanating from the composer himself (and DG) is a rare event. But rarity is of no...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/1984

Reicha Orchestral Works

Anton Reicha – or, if you prefer, Antonin Rejcha – is a good example of a composer who deserves better...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/1997

Bartók Concerto for Orchestra

How noble and compassionate of Christoph Eschenbach to dedicate his first Philadelphia album for Ondine to the memory of all...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 1/2006

Satie Piano Works

The piano music of Erik Satie, beyond the ubiquitous Gymnopedies, is something of an acquired taste. Reinbert de Leeuw here...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 3/1997

Celibidache (Der) Taschengarten

You can tell a good deal about a conductor by listening to the music he composes. With Furtwängler‚ expansive paragraphs...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

Dowland Lachrimae, etc

The option of using violins instead of viols in the seven basic pavans of Lachrimae, taken by The Parley of...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 7/1999

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