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Bartok Violin Concertos

Among the many ‘if only…’ fantasies that marry a particular work to a particular artist is Jascha Heifetz performing Bartók’s...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/11

JL ADAMS Four Thousand Holes. ...and bells remembered...

From the label, based in Venice, California, that has recently produced such classics as Christopher Roberts’s Trios for Deep Voices...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 09/2011

Martha Argerich Début Recital

Here, on this richly filled CD, is a positive cornucopia of musical genius. Martha Argerich's 1961 disc remains among the...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue:

BARTÓK Piano Concertos

If you’re after a disc of Bartók’s piano concertos that maximises on the music’s drive, elegance and sparring potential, then...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: A/2010

REICH Double Sextet. 2x5

It takes some grit to get past the conceit: minimalism written for rock band instrumentation, drummer backbeats filleting the groove,...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: A/2010

BALFE Falstaff

As leading British opera composer of the 19th century, Balfe deserved better than the almost complete indifference that greeted his...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 04/2009

PROKOFIEV. SHOSTAKOVICH First Violin Concertos

Vengerov uses Heifetz’s bow but it is to David Oistrakh that he is often compared. His vibrato is wider, his...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 02/1995

PROKOFIEV The Love for Three Oranges – Nagano

Long, long before the formulation of the concepts of the Theatre of Cruelty and the Theatre of the Absurd, Carlo...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1989

WAGNER Parsifal

When Herbert von Karajan initiated his Salzburg Easter Festival in 1967, it was his plan that each new opera production...

Reviewed in issue 04/81

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