http://journalisted.com/david-cairns en-gb http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article4565168.ece Review of Cesar Franck, Faure: String Quartet in D, String Quartet in E minor - The Sunday Times review . The fame of César Franck’s violin sonata (and its almost equally popular viola and cello arrangements) has eclipsed the string 2008-08-24 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article4565168.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article4515190.ece Review of Weber, Tippett, Brahms: Euryanthe Overture, Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli, Symphony No 4 - The Sunday Times review . The Weber comes from a studio recording, the Brahms and Tippett (Schmidt-Isserstedt championed his music) from a 1971 Festival Hall concert. 2008-08-17 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article4515190.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article4463958.ece Review of Elgar: Der Traum des Gerontius - The Sunday Times review . Germany was where Gerontius had its first success, after the failure of the Birmingham premiere. 2008-08-10 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article4463958.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article4429004.ece Review of JS Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier II - The Sunday Times review . Shared between three instruments, this enterprising French venture casts interesting new light. 2008-08-03 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article4429004.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article4351653.ece Review of Shubert:Piano Sonatas in C minor, D958, and A minor, D784 - The Sunday Times review . Even now, when the greatness of Schubert’s mature piano sonatas is unchallenged 2008-07-20 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article4351653.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article4270154.ece Just over a year ago, the Royal Festival Hall in London reopened after being shut for nearly two years, during which time the interior of the auditorium (and much else as well) was refurbished with a view to transforming an acoustic that 2008-07-06 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article4270154.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article4269702.ece Review of Mozart: Symphonies No 19 K132, No 34 K338, No 36 K425 (Linz): The Sunday Times review . The fifth of Norrington’s six-disc Mozart set of “Essential Symphonies”, recorded live at the Stuttgart European Music Fest 2008-07-06 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article4269702.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article4173131.ece Review of Dvorak: Symphony No 9, Symphonic Variations - The Sunday Times review . It’s hard to understand why a work as enjoyable as the Symphonic Variations, by a composer as popular as Dvorak, should be so neglected 2008-06-22 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article4173131.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article4128756.ece Review of Brahms: The Late Piano Pieces - the Sunday Times review . Markus Groh’s first disc for Avie was of Liszt, and Liszt at his most technically challenging — extrovert and revolutionary. 2008-06-15 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article4128756.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article4128717.ece Review of Beethooven: Symphony No 3, 12 Contretänze, Prometheus (finale) - the Sunday Times review . Andrew Manze has had the ingenious idea of coupling the Eroica with the set of contredanses in which the theme of the symphony’s finale 2008-06-15 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article4128717.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article4129250.ece Review of Cathy Davey: Tales of Silversleeve - the Sunday Times review . Four years after Something Ilk — a bewilderingly overlooked album — Dublin’s Cathy Davey returns with another set of songs 2008-06-15 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article4129250.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article4072312.ece Review of Gluck: Alceste - the Sunday Times review . Gluck’s tragic heroines demand sopranos with genius and greatness of spirit. 2008-06-08 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article4072312.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article4025188.ece Joan As Police Woman: To Be Loved Joan Wasser, ready to break hearts again, previews album two. 2008-06-01 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article4025188.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article3986442.ece Review of Schubert: Death and the Maiden (String Quartet in D minor, D810); Quartettsatz, D703 - the Sunday Times review . The superlative technical skills of these young Russian-Israelis, and a tendency to squeeze out every drop of expression, can actually obstru 2008-05-25 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article3986442.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article3940301.ece Review of Mahler: Symphony No 1 - the Sunday Times review . Gergiev’s Mahler cycle at the Barbican has been accused of excess – as if in Mahler’s, of all music, that were necessarily 2008-05-18 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article3940301.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article3895927.ece Review of Mozart: String Quartets, K499 in D, K575 in D - the Sunday Times review . The solitary “Hoffmeister” quartet, K499, is a neglected work. 2008-05-11 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article3895927.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article3856380.ece Review of Beethoven: Symphony No 9, arr Liszt - the Sunday Times review . Beethoven’s Ninth on two pianos is not at all the same thing, even when the transcription (masterly) is the work of Liszt. 2008-05-04 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article3856380.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article3756762.ece Review of Un Ballo in Maschera: Verdi: Covent Garden Chorus & Orchestra, cond Edward Downes: The Sunday Times Review . It was as the hero of Verdi’s Masked Ball that an unknown Canadian tenor, Jon Vickers, burst onto the opera scene in 1957, electrifying 2008-04-20 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article3756762.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article3628419.ece Review of Bruckner: Symphony No 8 in C Minor - the Sunday Times review . This powerful performance, from a Festival Hall concert in 1981, seems to me finer than the recently issued Tennstedt/LPO Bruckner 7, as well 2008-03-30 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article3628419.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article3597330.ece Review of Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 1 in C (Op 15), Bagatelles (Op 126) - the Sunday Times review . With a wonderful performance of Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto by Stephen Kovacevich and the London Mozart Players at Cadogan Hall la 2008-03-23 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article3597330.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article3496890.ece Review of Ernst: Elegy, Othello Fantasy, Six Polyphonic Studies, Erlkönig - the Sunday Times review . The Moravian violinist and composer Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (1814-65) is hardly remembered now, but in the mid-19th century, he was the Liszt 2008-03-09 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article3496890.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article3453438.ece Review of Bruckner: Symphony No 7 in E Major - the Sunday Times review . Tennstedt’s Mahler performances with the LPO in the 1980s were among the supreme events of that decade. 2008-03-02 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article3453438.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article3411129.ece Review of Mirella Freni: In Conversation with Jon Tolansky . This is one of several Close Encounters with Great Singers, the series based on radio interviews devised and conducted by Jon Tolansky. 2008-02-24 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article3411129.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article3369446.ece Review of Schubert: Piano Sonatas in D, D850; C minor, D958; A, D959; B flat, D960 . Though he makes liberal use of the sustaining pedal, a strength of Andsnes’s compelling interpretations is the prominence he gives to t 2008-02-17 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article3369446.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article3299702.ece Review of Brahms: Clarinet Sonatas, Op 120, No 1 in F minor and No 2 in E flat . Brahms’s musical love affair with the Meiningen clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld, which inspired him to return to composition after he had 2008-02-10 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article3299702.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article3284792.ece Review of Bruckner: Symphony No 8 (Nowak edition) . 2008-02-03 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article3284792.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article3245567.ece Review of The Comedian Harmonists: Wochenend und Sonnenschein . 2008-01-27 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article3245567.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article3204679.ece Review of Verdi: La Forza del destino . 2008-01-20 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article3204679.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article3162132.ece Review of Bruckner: Mass in E minor, Motets . 2008-01-13 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article3162132.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article3127139.ece Review of Elgar: Symphony No 1, The Kingdom Prelude . 2008-01-06 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article3127139.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article3046338.ece Review of Handel: Messiah . 2007-12-16 23:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article3046338.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article3005086.ece Review of Heddle Nash: The Recorded Legacy . 2007-12-09 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article3005086.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article2922922.ece Review of Brahms, Wagner, Mendelssohn . Violin Concerto, Siegfried Idyll, The Hebrides Overture Yehudi Menuhin, Lucerne Festival and Vienna Philharmonic orchestras, cond Wilhelm Furtwängler Naxos Historical 8. 2007-11-25 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article2922922.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article2831081.ece Review of Brahms . 2007-11-11 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article2831081.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article2787166.ece Review of Purcell: Victorious Love . 2007-11-04 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article2787166.ece