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Mahler Symphony No 2

Much has already been written about Gilbert Kaplan's extraordinary obsession with Mahler's Resurrection Symphony. A wealthy publisher and financier, he...

Reviewed in issue 1/1989

Maxwell Davies Mavis in Las Vegas

During 1995 Peter Maxwell Davies toured the USA with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. A British journalist, trying to contact him...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/1998

Rodgers Flower Drum Song

After Cinderella (reviewed above), and one year before their final opus, The Sound of Music, Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote Flower...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 9/1999

Bach Cantatas, Vol 13

Normal service resumes in Ton Koopman’s ambitious series of complete Bach cantatas. Volume 13 is the first under the Challenge...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2003

Chopin/Liszt/Szymanowski - Works for Piano

During the 50s and early 60s Maycuzynski (1914-77) became a matinee idol figure whose appearance conformed to everyone’s notion of...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/2001

Stockhausen Zodiac

Organist Dominik Susteck’s realisation of Tierkreis (“Zodiac”, 1975) is almost certainly provoking quizzical eyebrows back at Stockhausen HQ. Susteck’s excellent...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 13/2011

Gina Cigna (b. 1900)

Gina Cigna self-evidently divided her audiences. The prissy and the precise were and are alarmed by such an all-in singer...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1990

Stanford Chamber Music

The First of Stanford’s three piano trios dates from 1889 and bears a dedication to his good friend, the pianist...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 13/2011

Diana Damrau - Donna (Mozart arias)

“A strong and pleasing voice, in both high and low notes – a combination which one rarely encounters,” ran one...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 3/2009

Birtwistle Choral and Orchestral Works

There are few composers alive today with such distinctive musical personalities as Harrison Birtwistle. That's not enough of course—you could...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 8/1993

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