Gerald Finley - Great Operatic Arias, Vol 22

Anne Marie Gibbons | Deborah Miles-Johnson | Edward Gardner | Geoffrey Mitchell Choir | Gerald Finley | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Lucy Crowe | Matthew Long

All essentials for a recital are present here: the featured artist in good voice, imagination capable of bringing 13 different...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 4/2010

Haydn: Piano Trios

Beaux Arts Trio

These are bright, clean performances that have earned admiration. Certainly they are consistently skilful and stylish within the terms of...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 5/1988

Martin Butler Tin-Pan Ballet

Lontano | Martin Butler | Odaline de la Martinez | Ruth Crouch

I am not entirely sure that the fact that all the pieces on this disc of works by Martin Butler...

Reviewed by kshadwick in issue: 5/1994

Biber Mystery Sonatas

(Les) Veilleurs de Nuit | Arsys Bourgogne | David Roblou | Pavlo Beznosiuk | Pierre Cao | Richard Tunnicliffe

Only 10 years ago we were celebrating the 350th birthday of the Bohemian Heinrich Biber; now it’s time to commemorate...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 7/2004

Vivaldi Flute Concertos

Alexis Kossenko | Arte dei Suonatori

Most Vivaldi flute concerto discs home in on the six works he chose to publish as his Op 10 but...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 3/2011

Hail Bop! - (A) Portrait of John Adams

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Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 3/2007

Grechaninov Choral & Orchestral Works

Ludmila Kuznetsova | Russian State Symphonic Cappella | Russian State Symphony Orchestra | Tatiana Jeranje | Valéry Polyansky

There is music here from either end of Grechaninov's long career, and a group of songs from his middle years....

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1995

A Florentine Carnival

Brian Thomas | London Pro Musica

There is more than a whiff of nostalgia about this record, nostalgia for a style of performance, made popular above...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 2/1987

Mozart; Faure; Leigh Piano Concertos

(Boyd) Neel String Orchestra | (Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | Boyd Neel | Eduard van Beinum | Kathleen Long | Marguerite Long | National Symphony Orchestra

This delightful collection of recordings from the 1940s commemorates a pianist who graced the concert stage with musicianship of a...

Reviewed in issue 11/2001

Beethoven Missa Solemnis

Alastair Miles | Amanda Halgrimson | Cornelia Kallisch | John Aler | North German Radio Chorus | Roger Norrington | South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra | South West German Vocal Ensemble

Though this is not a period performance – as one might have expected from Sir Roger Norrington – his allegiances...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/2001