Geminiani (6) Cello Sonatas, Op 5

Enrico Bronzi | Michele Barchi

Known as “Il Furibondo” (“The Madman”) on account of his energetic style of playing and conducting, Geminiani had a good...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 6/2011

Mozart (La) Finta Giardiniera

Donald George | Elzbietta Smytka | Fionnuala McCarthy | Friedemann Layer | Jeanne Piland | Margaret Marshall | Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon National Orchestra | Reinhard Dorn | Thomas Moser

La finta giardiniera was Mozart’s last opera buffa before Le nozze di Figaro. But the two works belong to different...

Reviewed in issue 9/2002

Giordano Siberia

Annalisa Carbonara | Bratislava Chamber Choir | Domingo Stasi | Eufemia Tufano | Francesca Scaini | Giulio Mastronotaro | Giuseppe Ranoia | Italian International Orchestra | Jeon-Won Lee | Manilio Benzi

The title may not have helped; perhaps some-thing like Love in a Cold Climate would have been more attractive. Siberia...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/2004

Piano Works

Alicia de Larrocha

Though Bach, Handel and Mozart are not the composers with whom I'd immediately associate Larrocha, this recital is none the...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1987

Dupré Organ Works, Volume 6

Written in 1929 for his first American recital in three years, Dupre's Second Symphony is, in the words of David...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 5/2000

Schnittke Symphony No. 8

Lev Butenin | Russian State Symphony Orchestra | Valéry Polyansky

In his earlier years‚ Schnittke could switch from comedy to tragedy‚ tragedy to comedy‚ when you least expected it. For...

Reviewed in issue 10/2001

Banks; Fricker; Morgan Violin Concertos

Erich Gruenberg | Norman Del Mar | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Vernon Handley | Yfrah Neaman

This is a revival of forgotten violin concertos recorded more than 30 years ago, all of them elusive but not...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 9/2008

Bruckner Complete Symphonies

(Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | Bernard Haitink | Chicago Symphony Chorus | Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Daniel Barenboim | David Rendall | Jessye Norman | Ruth Welting | Samuel Ramey | Yvonne Minton

Reviewing Bernard Haitink's 1965 account of Bruckner's Fourth Symphony, Deryck Cooke wrote: ''The more I listen to Haitink's Bruckner performances,...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 8/1994

Vivaldi Nisi Dominus

Andreas Scholl | Australian Brandenburg Orchestra | Paul Dyer

Since his last Vivaldi disc Scholl has changed record companies, although this new disc conveys the sense of continuity in...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2000

Walton Henry V (after music from the film)

Andrew Penny | Anton Lesser | Michael Sheen | RTE Concert Orchestra

We owe it to the late Christopher Palmer, devotee both of Walton and of film music, that we have this...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1998