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Review of Gershwin Complete Music for Piano & Orchestra

Gershwin Complete Music for Piano & Orchestra

I feared the worst having seen the soloist’s photograph in the booklet before listening to the disc. The photogenic Ms...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2008

Review of Unsung Musicals III

Unsung Musicals III

Do we really need another selection of ballads, novelty numbers and singalong dance tunes from shows which were either unproduced,...

Reviewed in issue 13/1997

Review of Mahler Orchestral Works

Mahler Orchestral Works

Segerstam lends a keen, composerly ear to this startling score, delighting in the invention, the textural detail and colour as...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/1991

Review of Walton conducts Walton

Walton conducts Walton

Walton's career as a conductor seems to me to fall into two phases. It was Sir Eugene Goossens, experienced in...

Reviewed in issue 9/1986

Review of Debussy Piano Works

Debussy Piano Works

It is with the second book of Preludes that Livia Rev begins her recital, then plays Masques in the middle...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 5/1992

Review of Verdi Aida

Verdi Aida

Only Act 3 of this performance seems to have been available before – and that on ‘unofficial’ labels. Now The...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/2005

Review of Heifetz plays Grieg and Fauré

Heifetz plays Grieg and Fauré

As issues go nowadays, 41 minutes of music is a far from generous measure, but, as the tailoring maxim has...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1992

Review of Ginastera Piano Music, Vol.1

Ginastera Piano Music, Vol.1

Few composers have had the good fortune to be married to a performer of world class who has become a...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1993

Review of Dufay Quadrivium - Motets, Vol 1

Dufay Quadrivium - Motets, Vol 1

This is not the first CD to offer such a programme in recent years, but whether 70 minutes-worth of undiluted...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2005

Review of Rameau Platée

Rameau Platée

For an opera considerably off the beaten track, Platée has done rather well on disc. The recording of a famous...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 7/2004


 

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