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Mahler Symphony No. 2

The opening page tells you what to expect – something clean, incisive and well articulated. But seismic, momentous? No, that...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 9/2007

Britten War Requiem

It is specially welcome to have historic recordings like this available in the new medium of CD. Even when Simon...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1985

Reich The Cave

Heard and seen live, the opening of Reich’s The Cave wields immense force: Genesis XVI typed on to video screens...

Reviewed in issue 3/1996

Langgaard, S & R Harmonious Families, Volume 4

The recent revival of interest in the music of Rued Langgaard (1893-1952) here extends to the first performance and recording...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 6/2000

Tchaikovsky Manfred Symphony

Mendelssohn's Antigone music was written for a version commissioned for Berlin by Friedrich William IV. From a monarch so devoted...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/1994

Alfvén Orchestral Works

Niklas Willen and the RSNO turn in a lively account of Hugo Alfven’s First Symphony (the composer was just 24...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/1999

Kiri in Recital

A rich ripe peach of a recital, and in case that suggests something altogether too sweet and lush to satisfy...

Reviewed in issue 8/1990

Elgar Symphony No 1

The first thing to say about these CD performances—to echo EG—is that they are very slow: 57 minutes for Symphony...

Reviewed in issue 7/1986

French Music for Clarinet and Piano

When Gervase de Peyer gave a couple of London concerts earlier this year, our ''News & Views'' columns hailed with...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 9/1987

Faure Cello Sonatas Nos 1 & 2

Maria Kliegel, winner of the first Rostropovich Cello Competition in Paris in 1981, has made some formidable recordings for Naxos,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 13/2008

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