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Britten; Dowland; Maw Songs for Tenor and Guitar
Philip Langridge | Stephen Marchionda
This is an imaginative coupling since both Britten and Maw are represented by song-cycles with guitar as well as 20-minute...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 8/2005
Isabelle Demers: The Chicago Recital
Isabelle Demers is a Quebec-born organist who revels in the music she plays and the sounds she can produce by...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 11/2020
REINECKE Symphony No 2. Overtures (Raudales)
Henry Raudales | Munich Radio Orchestra
A student of Mendelssohn, Schumann and Liszt, Carl Reinecke (1824-1910) was a prominent fixture in Leipzig musical life for four...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW2024
Tchaikovsky Manfred Symphony
Mariss Jansons | Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Mariss Jansons and the Oslo Philharmonic round off their remarkable Tchaikovsky series for Chandos with an electrifying reading of Manfred,...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1988
Bloch; Bruch; Schumann Works for Cello & Orchestra
French Radio Philharmonic Orchestra | Paavo Järvi | Truls Mørk
The outstanding performance in this collection of concertante cello works is of Bloch’s Schelomo, which comes as a rich and...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/2005
Brahms Symphony No 1; Schicksalslied
Part of a project whose purpose is to contextualise Brahms’s four symphonies and German Requiem, this is a record that...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2008
Romanze The Romantic Viola
An introductory note from the Japanese-born, England-domiciled violist, Yuko Inoue, explains that this disc was timed to commemorate the 20th...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 10/2000
Greenberg, J String Quintet; Symphony No 5
Darrett Adkins | José Serebrier | Juilliard Qt | London Symphony Orchestra
Musical precocity is nothing new, as the early careers of Busoni, Mozart, Mendelssohn and Saint-Saëns bear witness. What is rarer...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 3/2007
PARRY String Quartets Nos 1-3. Scherzo (Archaeus Quartet)
Parry made no secret of his musical lineage. ‘Zweite Quartette C dur’, wrote the 20-year-old composer on the score of...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2018
FARRENC Symphonies Nos 1 & 3 (Equilbey)
Insula Orchestra | Laurence Equilbey
Louise Farrenc’s three symphonies represent a double triumph: over sexual prejudice, in an age when female creative artists suffered from...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2021
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