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Ravel: Piano Works

Cecile Ousset does not fall short of the technical demands of these pieces, but she does fall rather to one...

Reviewed in issue 1/1991

Schafer String Quartets Nos. 1-7

The music of Raymond Murray Schafer (b 1933) had hitherto struck me as earnest and skilful, questing but not visionary;...

Reviewed in issue 5/2001

Wagner Die Walküre, Act 3

This was the first-ever live recording to be issued of a whole act of an opera at Bayreuth, product of...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1993

Mozart Violin Works

This final disc in Frank Peter Zimmermann's Mozart concerto cycle on EMI is, like its predecessors, enjoyable and in no...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 5/1988

Michael Torke Overnight Mail

This disc of instrumental music documents a welcome return to form on the part of a composer who has not...

Reviewed by mharry in issue: 3/1998

Stravinsky (The) Rite of the Spring

This is a thought-provoking, yet entirely natural, coupling: two masterpieces from either side of the First World War, dramatising the...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2004

Shebalin Symphony 5 etc

Although most of Russia’s finest composers were tarred with the same brush in Zhdanov’s 1948 cultural purges, Vissarion Shebalin was...

Reviewed in issue 11/1997

Dufay: Sacred Choral Works

This is the most exciting record I've heard for some time. It spans Dufay's life, and his evolving style, from...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 7/1987

Petitgirard Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man

Many people flee at the mere mention of ‘contemporary opera’ – often, one must admit, with good excuse. All the...

Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 3/2005

Nielsen/Sibelius Orchestral Works

Looking back I see that I found Kubelik's account of Nielsen's Fifth Symphony, recorded at a concert performance, ''a humane,...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 10/1994

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