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Hummel Chamber Works
Alison Moncrieff Kelly | Lyn Garland | Madeleine Mitchell
The title ‘Amusement’ for the first of the four works on this disc could not be more apt. This is...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/2004
Arriaga String Quartets
Philips’s three commentators here, in their different languages, have a high old time unearthing influences on these quartets – besides...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 7/1996
Field Piano Concertos, Vol. 1
Benjamin Frith | David Haslam | Northern Sinfonia
In recent years Field’s concertos have been in the hands of two dedicated compatriots selling at full price. Now along...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 2/1998
Wolf-Ferrari Violin Concerto; Serenade
Alun Francis | Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra | Gustav Rivinius | Ulf Hoelscher
“Why do some innovators find fault with the past? Can you imagine a saint who would find fault with all...
Reviewed in issue 12/1996
Hummel Flute Sonatas
Carmen Picard | Elizabeth Dolin | Lise Daoust
Hummel’s lasting importance – according to Grove, “he clearly linked the styles of Clementi and Mozart, in a line that...
Reviewed in issue 12/1996
Schubert Orchestral Works
Herbert Blomstedt | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
What has happened to Decca's San Francisco sound? To sample, say, their recent Hindemith Nobilissima Visione (4193) and Mendelssohn Italian...
Reviewed by Jonathan Swain in issue: 10/1993
Wagner Piano Works, Vol.1
Graziano Mandozzi | Stephan Möller
It would take an extreme Wagner fanatic (not, of course, an uncommon phenomenon) to claim in all seriousness that, had...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/1993
Rubinstein Symphony No 2;Feramors - Ballet Music
Igor Golovschin | Moscow State Symphony Orchestra
When in 1865 Cesar Cui hailed an apprentice work by the young Rimsky-Korsakov as ''the first Russian symphony'', he managed...
Reviewed in issue 10/1994
Gade Violin Sonatas Nos 1 - 3
While Gade’s position as the father of Danish music remains secure, outside of Denmarkhis reputation rests on a surprisingly small...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 5/2010
Spohr Symphonies
Alfred Walter | Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice
Spohr has two enthusiastic modern advocates in Karl Anton Rickenbacher, with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (Orfeo), and Alfred Walter,...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/1993
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