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Shostakovich Cello Concertos Nos 1 and 2

Maria Kliegel’s greatest strength is her sensitivity to the more introspective aspects of both concertos – the First especially, where...

Reviewed in issue 10/1996

Mozart: Violin & Piano Works

From Mozart's first set of 'mature' violin and piano sonatas of 1778 (CD DG410 896-2GH, 4/84 and 415 102-2GH, 7/85),...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1987

Keyboard Works

The avowed intention of this record is to champion the music of two Interesting Historical Figures (as Tovey would probably...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 9/1985

Solo - Yo-Yo Ma

This delightful release finds Stephen Hough revisiting Virgin territory. A bad pun, yes, but not an oxymoron! Hough recorded two...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/1999

Reger Violin Sonata; (3) Viola Suites

The sheer variety of Reger’s music could hardly be better suggested than by this pair of discs. Reger the wild...

Reviewed in issue 10/2002

Giordano Andrea Chénier

Good studio recordings of Andrea Chénier are in plentiful supply, Corelli's own of 1963 (see above) among them. But the...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/2007

Ginastera Estancia; Panambí

It was a characteristically bold step by the 21-year-old Ginastera to make his Op 1 an ambitiously scored orchestral ballet...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 2/2007

Mendelssohn String Symphonies, Volume 3

With this third volume (the first two were reviewed in 12/96), Nicholas Ward and the Northern Chamber Orchestra complete their...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 13/1997

Ford A Icarus

Andrew Ford‚ born in Britain 45 years ago but resident in Australia for the last 20‚ is a composer who...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/2002

Mertz Bardenklänge, Op 13

Johan Kaspar Mertz was born in Pressburg (now Bratislava) in 1806. It is not known who taught him to play‚...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

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