Tchaikovsky Symphony No 3

Jansons brings his superb Tchaikovsky cycle near to completion with an account of the most awkward work of the series...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1986

Maxwell Davies Chamber Works

Despite being limited to music for piano, clarinet and string quartet, this programme gives a remarkably clear picture of Peter...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 9/2003

Jessye Norman sings Lieder

Like the three-LP collection of spirituals and sacred songs from Jessye Norman reviewed below this collection of Lider is one...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1985

Brahms Clarinet Sonatas

I think the current catalogue still lacks the ideal performance of these two sonatas. When it does come, I hope...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 1/1987

Schnittke; Schoenberg; Webern String Trios

In 1949, a few weeks before his 75th birthday and three years after composing his String Trio, Schoenberg recorded a...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 13/2010

The trees they grow so high

Ears accustomed to such sophisticated singers as Pears and Tear in these songs need to be radically re-attuned to listen...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1988

Aines Mistero Provenzale Medioevale

The story of St Agnes, told in Provencal dialect, is sung to contrafacta, which make use of the music of...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 4/2000

Saint-Saëns: Works for violin and orchestra

The most winning of violin-playing: technically of great brilliance, and lyrically of great sensuous quality (consider, for example, the con...

Reviewed in issue 7/1985

Bruckner Symphony No 3

In the recent revised paperback edition of his classic study The Essence of Bruckner (Gollancz: 1992) Robert Simpson argues afresh...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1993

Godowsky Studies on the Chopin Études

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 11/2000