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Mahler/Uri Caine Urlicht/Primal Light

Uri Caine’s post-modern provocation is unlikely to appeal to those for whom Mahler’s greatness resides in his ability to build...

Reviewed in issue 13/1997

Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin

This is a magnificent achievement on all sides. In a recording that is wider in range, more immediate than almost...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1993

Holborne The Teares of the Muses, London 1599

Hesperion XXI have followed their ‘one-off’ (2/99) with a second CD of music from the end of the reign of...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 11/2000

Beethoven Symphony No 9

A year after Pope Benedict XVI visited his native Bavaria in 2006, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus made...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/2011

Handel: Keyboard Works

If, in this enjoyable programme, the two suites—the splendid F minor (especially its brooding prelude, its powerfully chorded fugue and...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1984

Mahler Symphony No 9

When Solti conducted Mahler's Ninth Symphony in London in the autumn of 1981 the critic of The Financial Times observed:...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1983

Ferneyhough Chamber Works

The five chamber pieces on this recording were all completed within the last 10 years, mostly in the lead-up to...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2005

Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire & Ode to Napoleon

Pierre Boulez’s third recording of Pierrot lunaire is his first to use the Ensemble InterContemporain. The result is an intense...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/1998

Bizet Carmen

I was present to review this film when it was first shown in London in 1968. Since then a generation...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1996

Prokofiev Symphonies Nos 1 and 2 etc

Earlier issues in this super-budget series have been coolly received in these columns – Nos. 3 and 7 (10/95), No....

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 10/1997

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