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Review of Dutilleux Orchestral Music

Dutilleux Orchestral Music

This disc offers a trio of orchestral works by Dutilleux which are not otherwise available together, and it scores highly...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 5/1994

Review of Barber Orchestral Works

Barber Orchestral Works

It was to be expected that Samuel Barber should win all the prizes and receive the important commissions that he...

Reviewed in issue 7/1985

Review of Mozart: Vocal Works

Mozart: Vocal Works

Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots (''The Obligation of the First Commandment'') was a musical morality play, to a text by...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 9/1990

Review of Schumann: Piano Works

Schumann: Piano Works

Splendidly represented as Schumann's piano music now is in the CD catalogue, Faschingsschwank aus Wien was conspicuous by its absence....

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1989

Review of Zemlinsky Der Kreidekreis

Zemlinsky Der Kreidekreis

The discography of Zemlinsky's operas nears completion. It may not have thrown up a rival to Der Zwerg (on Schwann,...

Reviewed in issue 1/1992

Review of Campus Stellae - 12th Century Pilgrims' Songs

Campus Stellae - 12th Century Pilgrims' Songs

All-female ensembles have hitherto been rather thin on the ground, but following on from Anonymous 4 and the high-voice section...

Reviewed in issue 7/1995

Review of Andreae String Quartets Nos 1 and 2

Andreae String Quartets Nos 1 and 2

The Swiss musician Volkmar Andreae made his reputation primarily as a conductor and a champion of Bruckner. But his own...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/2010

Review of Poulenc (Les) biches; Stravinsky (The) Rite of Spring

Poulenc (Les) biches; Stravinsky (The) Rite of Spring

Thierry Fischer’s French sensibility is evident from the very start of this brightly lit and articulate Rite: a provocative and...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 9/2011

Review of How Lovely are Thy Dwellings

How Lovely are Thy Dwellings

The dignified and beautiful church evidently has a choir worthy of it. Their excellence is not merely technical: they really...

Reviewed in issue 13/1998

Review of Beethoven; Haydn; Mozart String Quartets

Beethoven; Haydn; Mozart String Quartets

Nowadays listeners wouldn’t tear up the score of Mozart’s K465, as Prince Grassalkovics is said to have done, because the...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 13/2010

 

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