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(The) Rose, the Lily and the Whortleberry

This recital structures a programme ranging though four centuries on a perennial theme, that of gardening (both in its own...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 9/2006

Ravel: Songs

This will, almost certainly, be one of my records of the year. For a long time critics have urged companies...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1984

Copland Chamber Works

Pianist Michael Boriskin is the director of Copland House (www.coplandhouse.org), which was the composer’s home in Cortlandt Manor, New York,...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 1/2005

Mahler Symphony No 1; Ruckert-Lieder

Valery Gergiev admitted recently (before conducting the performance available on LSO Live – 8/08) that of all Mahler’s symphonies he...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2010

Chopin Waltzes

Alexeev takes only 1'48'' over the so-called 'Minute' Waltz as against Ashkenazy's 1'50'', and is also slightly faster in a...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1987

French Orchestral Works

If the idea of hearing this programme in a large church appeals—in this case, St Barnabas, Mitcham—then here is a...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 6/1994

Cortot plays Schumann

It seems only yesterday that I was reviewing reissues of Cortot’s Schumann on both Dante and Biddulph (6/92). Here are...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/1996

Mélodies françaises

This is like a day that starts so freshly (albeit with serenade rather than aubade) that you feel it must...

Reviewed in issue 12/1996

Bach Organ Concertos

There is a markedly sharper focus in this CD version. The completely natural balance gives a feeling of space and...

Reviewed in issue 12/1984

Vivaldi Dresden Concerti, Volume 2

I greatly enjoyed the first volume of Dresden Concertos in Naxos’s “Vivaldi Collection” (8/97). Now comes Vol. 2 and if...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1997

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