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Strauss, R (Ein) Heldenleben; Webern Im Sommerwind

Bernard Haitink, the most European of conductors, might seem an unexpected choice as principal conductor of America’s most high-powered orchestra,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2010

Rimsky-Korsakov Piano Concerto; Tchaikovsky Symphony No 3

This unexpected and in some ways incongruous coupling is defended by the conductor on the grounds of stylistic diversity and...

Reviewed in issue 10/1997

Bach Cantatas 9, 119 & 120

Unlike Koopman and Suzuki, Philippe Herreweghe has provided (for Virgin and HM) a refreshing alternative to cantata completism over the...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 7/2000

Vivaldi Sacred Music, Vol. 8

Volume 8 of the King's Consort's Vivaldi sacred music series gives the choir a rest and focuses on motets for...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2002

Glazunov Raymonda - excs; Symphony No 8

Glazunov’s Eighth Symphony’s arrival in 1905 was concurrent with one of Russia’s key revolutionary dates but there is nothing revolutionary...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/2005

Schubert String Quartets, D703 & D810

The Lindsay's approach to the first movement of the Death and the Maiden is highly charged and dramatic. They employ...

Reviewed in issue 7/1986

Martin Choral Works

Written in the aftermath of World War II, Golgotha is the sacred counterpart to Tippett’s A Child of Our Time,...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 13/1998

Chaliapin Edition (The), Vol. 1, 1902-1908

The inauguration of a complete Chaliapin edition on CD is news. There have been plenty of recital-discs (EMI, Nimbus, Pearl,...

Reviewed in issue 5/2001

Flying Horse: the ML Lutebook

According to lutenist Elizabeth Kenny, the anonymous The Flying Horse, with its “ground bass spiced up with an exotic chord...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 13/2009

Masses for choirs and two organs

With the expansion of the French organ in the latter part of the nineteenth century came increased opportunities to use...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 9/1991

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