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Bliss String Quartet No 1 & Others Chamber Works.

Enthusiasts may already possess Bliss’s two mature string quartets in the Delmé Quartet’s superb Hyperion coupling from 1985. Now come...

Reviewed in issue 9/2002

Classic Mancini

James MacMillan’s trumpet concerto Epiclesis – meaning ‘prayer’ or ‘invocation’ – is built round a basic contrast between expansive meditation...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/2000

Mendelssohn Works for Cello and Piano

Mendelssohn completed his First Cello Sonata during the autumn of 1838. Like the Variations Concertantes which predate it by almost...

Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 10/1992

Organ Fireworks Vol 14

A source of perpetual admiration in this endlessly rewarding series is the sheer range of repertoire Christopher Herrick gets through....

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/2010

J C Bach Symphonies & Concertos

We have become so used to thinking of JS Bach’s youngest son Johann Christian as a purveyor of mid-Classical elegance...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 9/2004

Berlioz Orchestral works

Though reissued at budget price, neither of these versions of the Symphonie fantastique really provides the value that is to...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1990

Brahms Tragic Overture; Schubert Symphony No 9; Weber Oberon Overture

Schubert's “Great C major” is a symphony which cannot be learnt; a conductor either feels it in his bones or...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/2007

Alkan Chamber Works

The reasonably healthy listing of discs under Alkan's entry in the current Gramophone Classical Catalogue is sufficient proof that his...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 8/1993

Brahms Piano Works, Vol. 1

Antonin Kubalek was born in 1935 in Czechoslovakia but has lived in Canada since 1968. He has already made two...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 8/1992

Rachmaninov; Tchaikovsky Piano Trios

A more apposite coupling might have been two Russian “in memoriam” piano trios (Tchaikovsky’s written in memory of Nikolai Rubinstein,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 2/2011

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