Gade Symphonies, Vol 4

Christopher Hogwood | Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra | Danish National Symphony Orchestra | Ronald Brautigam

If not the most adventurous of composers, and in his later years overly conservative, Gade in his youth certainly had...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 5/2003

Kuhlau Orchestral works

Frøydis Ree Werke | Ib Lazky-Otto | Michael Ponti | Odense Symphony Orchestra | Othmar Maga

Outside Denmark, Kuhlau is remembered for his music for the flute, whose repertoire he greatly enriched though he also contributed...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1991

Labor Organ Works

Ann Carey | Ian Coleman

Blind from the age of three, the Bohemian Josef Labor (1842-1924) briefly enjoyed the patronage of the Elector of Hanover...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 5/2000

Fauré Barcarolles

Paul Crossley

It is not entirely flippant to begin by saying that Faure wrote more barcarolles than any other distinguished composer. Ranging...

Reviewed in issue 7/1985

Michael Haydn Part Songs

Singphoniker

This vocal group with the terrible word-play for a name consists of former Munich music students who started out with...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 2/1997

Brahms; Bruch Violin Concertos

Bruch and Brahms is a logical coupling if you think about it – room enough on CD to replace the...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2009

Elgar Violin Concerto; Polonia

Andrzej Panufnik | BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra | BBC Symphony Orchestra | Ida Haendel | John Pritchard

Ida Haendel evidently has strong ideas about Elgar’s masterpiece. Impassioned and full of character though her playing is, it is,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/1997

Hartmann Liden Kirsten

Danish National Radio Choir | Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra | Gert Henning-Jensen | Henriette Bonde-Hansen | Inger Dam-Jensen | Kirsten Dolberg | Michael Schønwandt | Poul Elming | Susanne Resmark

Little Kirsten (‘Liden Kirsten’; 1845-6) was the third opera composed by Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann (1805-1900) and the second in...

Reviewed in issue 10/1999

WHITLOCK. CH STEWART Organ Wks

Philip Rushforth

Dotted around the vast output of British organ composers of the 19th and 20th centuries is a tiny handful of...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 02/2012

MERKEL Organ Works Vol 3

Halgeir Schiager

Before the election of the current German Chancellor, the name Merkel was, so far as British organists were concerned, synonymous...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: AW/2012