Arnold Concertos

Karen Jones | Kenneth Sillito | London Musici | Lyn Fletcher | Mark Stephenson | Martha Collins | Richard Watkins

Malcolm Arnold is the master of what might be described as the 'quarter-hour concerto'. Neo-classical in scale and aim, the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/1989

STANFORD The Travelling Companion (Purser)

David Horton | Felix Kemp | Ian Beadle | Julien Van Mellaerts | Kate Valentine | Lucy Urquhart | New Sussex Opera Chorus | New Sussex Opera Orchestra | Pauls Putnins | Tamzin Barnett

This is a landmark: the first full-length commercial recording of any of Stanford’s nine completed operas. It’s all the more...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2019

A Lionel Tertis Celebration (Timothy Ridout)

Frank Dupree | James Baillieu | Timothy Ridout

London East Ender Lionel Tertis (1876-1975) was one of the most influential viola players of the last century, his sound...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2024

BRONSART; HENSELT Piano Concertos (Paul Wee)

Michael Collins | Paul Wee | Swedish Chamber Orchestra

The Henselt Concerto has been recorded only three times previously, remarkable when you consider it was an almost de rigueur...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2024

LITOLFF Piano Music, Vol 1 (Tingyue Jiang)

Tingyue Jiang

Very little of Litolff’s music has appeared on record – surprising for a pianist-composer who in his day (1818 91)...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2023

Rendez-vous with Martha Argerich Vol 3

Like the Verbier Festival, ‘Festival Martha Argerich’ hosts some of the world’s best-known soloists, as well as some who aren’t...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2024

DUFOURT L'Origine du monde

Marilyn Nonken

As one of the six separate compositions by Hughes Dufourt on this album, written between 1994 and 2018, L’origine du...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 03/2025

Berlioz Orchestral Works

Gérard Caussé | Michel Plasson | Toulouse Capitole Orchestra

Michel Plasson has revived the fortunes of the Toulouse Capitole Orchestra, and under his leadership it has become one of...

Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 2/1992

Tenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition: JonNakamatsu

Aviram Reichert | Jon Nakamatsu | Yakov Kasman

The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition may have attracted more than its fair share of opprobrium but the tenth event...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/1998

CHOPIN; TCHIAKOVSKY; PROKOFIEV; LISZT Piano Concertos

David Zinman | Eleazar de Carvalho | Hanover NDR Symphony Orchestra | Heinz Wallberg | Kurt Masur | Nelson Freire | ORTF Philharmonic Orchestra | Reinhard Peters | Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra | Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

These recordings of live broadcasts dating from 1968 79 tell us in no uncertain terms of Nelson Freire’s immaculate overall...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2014