Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5

Christian Zacharias | Hans Vonk | Staatskapelle Dresden

I recall Christian Zacharias being spoken of highly when it was comparatively difficult to acquire any of his recordings in...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1989

Sor Late works for guitar

William Carter

Whether in a solo or continuo context, lutenist and guitarist William Carter always combines an improvisational exuberance with an intense...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 10/2011

Chadwick Orchestral Works

Detroit Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi

Anyone who investigated George Whitefield Chadwick's Third Symphony (10/94) should equally enjoy getting to know its predecessor. Chadwick began work...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 4/1995

Hindemith Complete Wind Concertos

Carsten Wilkening | Charlotte Cassedanne | Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra | Liviu Varcol | Marie Luise Neunecker | Reinhold Friedrich | Ulrich Mehlhart | Walter Büchsel | Werner Andreas Albert

Hindemith's four wind concertos (1947-9) have never enjoyed the success of the Kammermusik concertos (with which they have much in...

Reviewed in issue 11/1995

R. Strauss: Horn Concertos etc.

Ann Murray | English Chamber Orchestra | Jeffrey Tate | Radovan Vlatkovic

Inevitably any recording of the two Strauss horn concertos comes up against the Dennis Brain/Sawallisch performances on EMI, but these...

Reviewed in issue 4/1990

Shostakovich Viola Sonata, Op 147; Violin Sonata, Op 134

Andrey Pushkarev | Gidon Kremer | Kremerata Baltica | Yuri Bashmet

These sonatas are from Shostakovich's last creative decade and share a similar formal trajectory. Michail Zinman's and Andrei Pushkarev's 2005...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 1/2007

Then English Cathedral Series: Worcester

Christopher Allsop

When Christopher Robinson displayed the 1896 Hope-Jones organ of Worcester Cathedral in his 1968 recording for HMV’s ‘Great Cathedral Organ’...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/2014

MACMILLAN; MAXWELL DAVIES Piano Trios

Gould Piano Trio

After their splendid Mendelssohn recording (11/14), the Gould Trio turn to a very different programme. The MacMillan works are strongly...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 05/2015

DUBOIS Symphony No 2. Messe Pontificale

The first bars of this set are so startling that you momentarily suspect that there must have been a mistake....

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2015

Andrew Peters: American Variations

Andrew Peters

This welcome 15-track anthology is topped and tailed by two of the best-known concert organ pieces by native American composers,...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 09/2018