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Canteloube Chants d'Auvergne
Auvergne Orchestra | Jean-Jacques Kantorow | Marvis Martin
Perhaps this is what you have been looking for too. For a long time I remained fond of these songs...
Reviewed in issue 11/1994
Damase Piano Works
Longer ago than I care to remember, a music teacher played me some piano music by Jean-Michel Damase and then...
Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 6/2004
Finzi Songs
Anna Tilbrook | James Gilchrist
This is the third encounter with Finzi in recent months. Mark Padmore with Roger Vignoles (Hyperion, 5/05) and Roderick Williams...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/2005
Vivaldi Concertos for Bassoon, Vol 1
Adrian Chandler | La Serenissima | Pamela Thorby | Peter Whelan
Adrian Chandler’s latest Vivaldi collection plays on a trio of associations that have little to do with the musical content...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 9/2010
Dvorák String Quartets
The Chilingirian's coupling of two more of Dvorak's finest string quartets, in the wake of their disc of Nos. 8...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1990
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde
Eiji Oue | Jon Villars | Michelle DeYoung | Minnesota Orchestra
The innocent ear, free from odious comparisons with the past, might welcome this straightforward, careful, well-played traversal of a wonderful...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1999
Solomon in Berlin
This invaluable issue brings together on two short CDs recitals given by Solomon in 1956 for RIAS (Berlin radio). This...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/1995
Hindemith Orchestral Works
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | Leonidas Kavakos | Yan Pascal Tortelier
Hindemith’s own 1956 account of his Konzertmusik, Op 50 – (Columbia, 3/58 – sadly nla) – has never been bettered...
Reviewed in issue 8/2001
Susan Graham - Poèmes de l' Amour
BBC Symphony Orchestra | Susan Graham | Yan Pascal Tortelier
It’s a brave, or foolhardy, composer who sets about re-orchestrating Debussy. Yet that is what John Adams has done, in...
Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 6/2005
Schubert: Piano Works
Perhaps what I enjoyed most here was the naturalness of Pires's approach, her intuitive way of getting to the crux...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 2/1990
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