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Encore! An Hour with Cantilena

I enjoyed this collection most in its cassette format which sounds slightly smoother at the top than the CD, which...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1984

Nordentoft Chamber Works

Such early pieces as I have encountered by the Dane Anders Nordentoft (b.1957, a pupil of Norgard and Norholm), among...

Reviewed in issue 4/1998

Mahler Symphony No 9

Alan Gilbert’s Mahler may be new to Gramophone readers, but the opening is full of a familiar ache – the...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2009

Mendelssohn Symphony No 2, 'Lobgesang'

No work of Mendelssohn has soared so high and sunk so low as this symphony-cantata composed for the Leipzig celebrations...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 3/2011

Shostakovich String Quartets/Piano Quintet

The release of this seven-LP set is timed to coincide with the Borodin Quartet's visit to London this spring when...

Reviewed in issue 3/1986

Bach Advent Cantatas

Philippe Herreweghe’s selective survey of Bach’s vast sacred cantata output continues with three pieces written for Advent. Two of them,...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 12/1997

Krafft De Profundis; Levavi Oculos Meos

This is a rarity alright. Flemish church music post­Renaissance is virtually unknown these days‚ and there must be few modern...

Reviewed in issue 6/2002

Mahler Symphony No 5

Bernstein's tempo for the uneral march in the first movement of Mahler's Fifth Symphony has become slower in the 23...

Reviewed in issue 8/1988

Rossini Tancredi

Tancredi is Rossini’s first fully imagined essay in the serious style; it was also one of the first operas to...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1996

Mozart Idomeneo

In an opera which announces itself in the dramatic power of its accompanied recitative, Sir Colin Davis is likely to...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 2/1988

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