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Schoeck Notturno

Notturno is described not as a song-cycle but as “Five movements for string quartet and voice”. All but one of...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 0/0

Schubert Complete Lieder, Vol.19

''The miracle of Suleika I is that it manages to be both epic and intensely personal—we are drawn to the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1994

Nielsen Chamber Music, Vol 1

This is a motley collection of pieces for various ensembles, mixing mature and juvenile works in no particular order. But...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2007

Iona Brown & The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra

Concert performances and music-making of exceptional accuracy, delicacy, aerial grace and vivacity (tempos all chosen so that the music can...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/1999

Verdi Requiem

This is something of a milestone in the discography of the work, being the first modern version to be housed...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1996

Valen Complete Symphonies

Fartein Valen was very much a loner in Norwegian music, and although is piano music enjoyed the advocacy of Glenn...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 8/1993

Janácek Piano Works

Andras Schiff cares deeply for this music; of that I have no doubt. And he has evidently gone to some...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique; (La) Mort de Cléopâtre

Recorded in Rotterdam in March 2010, this release arrived in London in between two LPO concerts of French repertoire by...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 5/2011

Verdi La traviata

This live performance of 1939 reminds us what we have lost and gained in performing Verdi—and perhaps all opera. You...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1992

Te Deum

This is the ‘official Millenium CD of the Vatican City, made “to celebrate the Holy Year 2000”’, and the recording,...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: /2000

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