ONSLOW String Quintets nos 20 & 26

Elan Quintet

Amateur chamber musicians will need no introduction to Georges Onslow. One of his 30-odd two-cello quintets usually gets pulled from...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2016

Rachmaninov/R.Strauss Cello Sonatas

Anne Gastinel | Pierre-Laurent Aimard

I suppose Richard Strauss's Cello Sonata must have a number of devotees, but I was slightly frustrated to hear such...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 12/1993

Mustonen Orchestral Works

Anna Kreetta Turunen | Elisabeth Batiashvili | Ilari Angervo | Jaakko Kuusisto | Kati Salovaara | Marko Ylönen | Martti Rousi | Olli Mustonen | Pekka Kuusisto | Tapiola Sinfonietta

Olli Mustonen’s music mirrors the keen-eared, eagle-eyed, fidgety pianistic talent that we already know from his recordings of, say, Bach...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Rufinatscha Orchestral Works, Vol 1

Johann Rufinatscha was born in the southern Tyrol in 1812 and died in the same year as Brahms, 1893, having...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 7/2011

Allegri Miserere; Mundy Vox Patris caelestis; Palestrina Missa Papae Marcelli

Alison Stamp | Peter Phillips | Tallis Scholars

The importance of this recording, one of the Tallis Scholars’ first, speaks for itself. Its re-release on the group’s in-house...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

F L A Kunzen Holger Danske

Danish National Radio Choir | Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra | Thomas Dausgaard

If the name on the cover were Mozart or Weber, then Holger Danske (“Ogier the Dane”) would be a familiar...

Reviewed in issue 7/1996

Stanford Orchestral Works

Lydia Mordkovitch | Ulster Orchestra | Vernon Handley

In his informative essay accompanying this disc, Lewis Foreman tells us that Stanford's Fourth Symphony was commissioned by and first...

Reviewed in issue 3/1991

ELGAR Enigma Variations. In the South (Petrenko)

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra | Vasily Petrenko

Vasily Petrenko directs an admirably trim, affectionate and cannily paced Enigma, free of fussy intervention and marked by superb orchestral...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2019

ROTT Complete Orchestral Works Vol 1 (Ward)

Christopher Ward | Cologne Gürzenich Orchestra

In addition to the symphony that so markedly influenced Gustav Mahler, Hans Rott (1858-84) composed a number of other orchestral...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 11/2020

BRONSART Jery und Bätely

Caroline Bruker | Dario Salvi | Harrie Van der Plas | Laurence Kalaidjian | Malmö Opera Orchestra | Sönke Tams Freier | Thorsten Edén

Born in St Petersburg to Swedish parents in 1840, Ingeborg Lena Starck studied piano and composition, completing her studies with...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2020