Schubert Symphonies Nos 3 & 6

Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra | Günter Wand

Gunter Wand, now an associate conductor of the BBC SO, shows himself an admirable and most stylish Schubertian. The Symphony...

Reviewed in issue 3/1985

Schubert Symphonies 5 & 8

Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra | Ton Koopman

The period instrumentalists have blazed the trail. Now the modern orchestras are making a comeback in the Viennese classics. Some,...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 8/1997

Adams, J Road Movies

John Novacek | Leila Josefowicz | Nicolas Hodges | Rolf Hind

John Adams hasn’t written much for solo instruments or small ensembles, so this collection is especially valuable, even if two...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 8/2004

Howells Music for Strings

City of London Sinfonia | Richard Hickox

I have listened to this disc several times in the hope of being able to get a clearer impression of...

Reviewed in issue 7/1993

T Giordano Quartets & Quintets

(L')Astrée

Now if you want to be clear, follow closely. Two years ago L’Astree recorded (10/97) five quartets by Giardini; now...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1999

Vienna State Opera Live, Vol.12

Wolken | Alexander Sved | Anne Michalsky | Bella Paalen | Berthold Sterneck | Clemens Krauss | Dora With | Elisabeth Schumann | Emil Schipper | Enid Szánthó

This volume of the Vienna State Opera archive recordings is mainly devoted to three of the most popular singers of...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1995

Canzoni e Danze Wind Music from Renaissance Italy

If you thought that the sounds of those exotic winds of the renaissance, the bagpipes, sackbut, crumhorn and shawm, with...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 8/1996

Hasse Choral Works

(Il) Fondamento Choir | (Il) Fondamento Orchestra | Dirk Snellings | Greta de Reyghere | Ian Honeyman | Susanna Moncayo von Hase

Almost exactly a year ago I reviewed in these pages another performance of Hasse's Requiem Mass in C major. It...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1993

Bartók Piano Works Vol 3

Jenö Jandó

The third volume of Jenö Jandó’s cycle of Bartók’s piano music brings a sharp reminder of the composer’s genius....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2004

Brahms Piano Sonata in F minor; Schumann Fantasie in C

Wilhelm Kempff

Writing acutely and evocatively in his accompanying essay about Wilhelm Kempff‚ Stephen Plaistow quotes Alfred Brendel. For Brendel‚ Kempff ‘when...

Reviewed in issue 3/2002