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Delius Appalachia, etc

A generously filled disc and a potentially important one – we haven’t had new recordings of the main works here,...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 1/1996

Shostakovich Symphony No.8

Having seen and heard Vasily Petrenko’s work in Liverpool almost from the beginning, I can testify to his dramatic impact,...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 8/2010

Holst & Vaughan Williams Ballet Music

Barry Wordsworth is not a big name among British conductors, so it is all the more to the credit of...

Reviewed in issue 5/1990

Howells Choral & Organ Works

A single item on this admirable disc would make me wish to invest in it: the unaccompanied motet Take him,...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 9/1988

Dittersdorf Symphonies

All credit to Adrian Shepherd and Cantilena for continuing their explorations into the byways of eighteenth-century music with this fascinating...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/1988

Scriabin Symphony No 2, etc

Though it claims to be a world premiere, here is another recording of the early Symphonic Poem so soon after...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/1999

Romantic Serenades

Of their gentle nature, three serenades in a row might be thought to be pushing things too far. Add to...

Reviewed in issue 1/1989

Thomas Wilson Piano Concerto; Introit

Thomas Wilson can be tidily pigeon-holed as one of those British composers, born in the 1920s, whose idiom was forged...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/1988

Guitarra! - (The) Guitar in Spain

Twenty years on, the eight-part series ¡Guitarra! remains a landmark in films about music. The repertoire ranges from pieces for...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 8/2006

Berkeley Edition, Vol 5

The two works by Lennox Berkeley were premiered in 1948, a vintage period for him, and both are masterpieces. The...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 2/2005

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