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Beethoven Orchestral Works

Three of Beethoven's most revolutionary works receive here performances that suggest something of the eclat terrible of war. The ardour...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1992

Gershwin Orchestral Works

I agree with MH who reviewed the LP version that Mata does not so readily identify with the music of...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/1983

Beethoven Concertos

This is another excellent disc in the Tring/RPO Beethoven series (Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 3 were reviewed in 1/97)....

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/1997

Richard Meale Orchestral Works

Richard Meale (b. 1932) was for many years a standard-bearer of the Australian avant-garde. Over the last two decades or...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/1996

Renée Fleming Mozart arias

Two immediate reactions to the very first sound of the voice concerned identities. As in a waking dream I said...

Reviewed in issue 10/1996

Brahms Viola Sonatas; Songs

This is an unusual programme, but none the worse for being so. One unifying factor is, of course, the viola,...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1994

(The) Dream of Herod

I don’t know what quality or style of singing is expected of ‘ye choirs of new Jerusalem’ but they could...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/2002

Schubert Piano Works

The Schubert series of Brendel and Schiff, the return of Richter—to say nothing of Ashkenazy's own conducting career with its...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 4/1995

Beethoven Symphonies 1 & 2

Reviewing the complete set, RO found Haitink's No. 2 ''curiously lack-lustre … the tempos often rather broad, the dramatic temperature...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 7/1989

American Flute Works

Doriot Anthony Dwyer, for many years the first flute of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, is undoubtedly the right soloist for...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 3/1993

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