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Kodály: Orchestral Works

It has taken a long time for this disc, made in honour of the centenary in 1982 of Kodaly's birth,...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 3/1987

Desplat Syriana

Mood is of the essence in Alexandre Desplat’s sparing score as this drama is played out against the backdrop of...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 6/2006

Clara Rodriguez plays Teresa Carreño

Teresa Carreño (1853- 1917), nicknamed “The Valkyrie of the Piano”, had much in common with Martha Argerich: South American (Carreño...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 9/2009

Italian Recorder Concertos

In reviewing the original LP of this programme NA was as impressed by his first hearing of Richard Harvey as...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 5/1988

Haydn; Schubert; Liszt Piano Works

After Brendel’s successful‚ and occasionally inspiring‚ two­disc set of live Schubert performances (Philips‚ 3/01) this Salzburg compilation comes as something...

Reviewed in issue 11/2001

Nancarrow Studies for Player Piano, Vol.5

The twentieth-century tradition of the musical outsider is a long and, in some cases, honourable one. Conlon Nancarrow has all...

Reviewed in issue 8/1989

Britten; Maw String Quartets

The Coull Quartet have often played Nicholas Maw’s Third Quartet since giving its premiere in 1995, and this recording –...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/2007

Puccini La bohème

Although this performance was the basis of Luigi Comencini's film of La boheme (not yet seen in Britain at the...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/1988

Stravinsky Ballet Scores

Sir Georg’s Petrushka (his first on disc) is a rather morose creature who dies hard. The crowds at the Shrove-tide...

Reviewed in issue 1/1996

Debussy Jeux; La Mer; Nocturnes

I wonder if Debussy intended the exchanges of the sea sirens' song at the start of the third of the...

Reviewed by jswain in issue: 3/2000

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