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Grieg & Saeverud Peer Gynt Suites

To juxtapose the Peer Gynt music of Grieg and Saeverud on record is such an obvious idea that it is...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 5/1998

Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, Vol 17

The first of these settings will come as news to many. We know Howells in connection with Cambridge, Chichester, Gloucester,...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/2000

Stravinsky Ballet Music

This is the third Stravinsky disc from this team and, like its predecessors (9 / 93 and 1 / 94),...

Reviewed in issue 12/1994

Vives Doña Francisquita

Where Tomás Bretón’s La Verbena de la Paloma, reissued by Naïve simultaneously with this disc (see page 84), represents the...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 10/2003

Swedish Orchestral Music

Kurt Atterberg's Fifth Symphony dates from 1922—the same year as Nielsen's—and shows a greater concentration of purpose and more consistent...

Reviewed in issue 8/1992

Korngold Orchestral Works

The Korngold revival shows no signs of abating. This ASV issue adds two further titles from his last years (he...

Reviewed in issue 1/2002

Shostakovich Symphony No 8

If the booklet-notes are anything to go by, the conductor identifies this music with the hectic activity of war. So...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 3/2006

Arrangements for Brass

The name of the group, Munich Brass, is not a translation, the notes tell us, Munchner Blech was thought not...

Reviewed in issue 8/1989

Stravinsky Works for String Orchestra

The Guildhall String Ensemble has 11 players: six violins, two each of violas and cellos and a double-bass. How would...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1990

Boccherini String Sextets

Last year Boccherini's string sextets made their debut on CD in the commemorative set issued by Capriccio (5/93); only one...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 6/1994

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