American Music for Two Pianos

The inclusion of Gershwin’s Variations on “I got rhythm” is ironic, for a taut sense of rhythm is singularly lacking...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 6/1998

Purcell (The) Fairy Queen

The Fairy Queen is often referred to snootily as a “semi-opera” because the entertainment staged at Dorset Garden in 1692...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2010

Beethoven Piano Trios

Vienna Piano Trio

We’re not told if the Vienna Piano Trio (average age still only 30) intend to join such illustrious teams as...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 7/1997

Mozart String Quartets

Orlando Quartet

The Orlando Quartet take the lovely slow movement of K575 a shade slower than the Berg on Teldec, and I...

Reviewed in issue 3/1986

Beethoven Concertos

Howard Shelley | Jean-Jacques Kantorow | Michael Roll | Raphael Wallfisch | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

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

Renée Fleming Mozart arias

Charles Mackerras | Krista Bennion Feeney | Renée Fleming | St Luke's Orchestra

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

Boccherini Symphonies

Adrian Shepherd | Cantilena

This very welcome set brings Boccherini the symphonist back to the catalogue. Boccherini the symphonist?—well, he was not a symphonist...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/1986

Chopin Preludes, 1-24; Nocturnes - excerpts

Jorge Bolet

Bolet has formidable competition here from a number of artists including the impetuous Argerich (DG), the more temperate, thoughtfully musical...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 11/1988

An American in Prague

Aaron Copland | Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

This is a real find—a live Copland concert recorded by Czech Radio, with the tapes kept and thus able to...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 6/1993

Schumann: Symphonies 1 & 4

Authentic Orchestra | Derek Solomons

Schumann's symphonies have so often been berated for their poor orchestration that there is a particular case for seeing, or...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1990