Popper Works for Cello and Orchestra

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 6/2001

(Les) Vendredis

An inviting but undemanding programme that suggests a lost age where the privileged (either by birthright or talent) could liaise,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/1999

Stravinsky Vocal Works

Many readers will probably look askance at the timing here—could DG really not have done anything with the spare 30...

Reviewed in issue 6/1988

Kiri sings Cole Porter

I seem to have come full circle in my feelings about Dame Kiri singing this repertoire, from one of being...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 7/1994

Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time

Hands up all those who would put money on a one-time music director of the Paris Opera being able to...

Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 11/2000

Bartók: Violin Concertos

Midori is growing up fast. When I first heard her, I was stunned but cautious. The technique was prodigious, of...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 2/1991

Shura Cherkassky Piano Recital

Few pianists alive can hold an audience in the palm of their hand quite like Cherkassky, and the choice of...

Reviewed in issue 2/1986

The Play of Daniel

Given the right kind of promotion and a few strokes of luck, this could easily become a vogue. Michael Popp...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 2/1995

Mozart Clarinet Concerto; Clarinet Quintet - arrangements for viola

Johann Anton André was co-director of the publishing firm founded by, and named after, his father in Offenbach-am-Main. In 1799...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 13/2007

20th Century French Orchestral Works

This programme of 1920s French music is in the hands of a conductor who gets right into the spirit of...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1992