Clementi Symphonies

London Mozart Players | Matthias Bamert

Though this disc appears in Chandos's ''Contemporaries of Mozart'' series, there is hardly a trace here of the composer who...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 3/1994

Lazar Berman - Piano Recital

Lazar Berman

To be dubbed ''The Legendary'' can be a curse for a musician. But the fact is that Lazar Berman's Liszt...

Reviewed in issue 6/1992

Verdi Don Carlo

Ambrosian Opera Chorus | Carlo Maria Giulini | Delia Wallis | Giovanni Foiani | John Noble | Maria-Rosa del Campo | Montserrat Caballé | Plácido Domingo | Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden | Ruggero Raimondi

It is almost 30 years since Giulini's epoch-making and revealing revival of Don Carlos at Covent Garden; it is 17...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1987

Messiaen Complete Organ Works

Hans-Ola Ericsson | Jennifer Bate | Jon Gillock | Louis Thiry | Naji Hakim | Thomas Daniel Schlee

In March and April last year, six organists, each highly regarded by the composer, performed Messiaen’s complete organ works in...

Reviewed by prussell in issue: 7/1996

J C Bach Keyboard Concertos, Op 7

In the multi-talented Anthony Halstead’s previous disc (11/97) of J. C. Bach’s keyboard concertos he employed nine strings from the...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1999

Strauss, R Complete Brass Ensemble Works

James Watson | Royal Academy of Music Symphonic Brass

The brass ensemble of the Royal Academy, a truly excellent ensemble, have already given us (under Keith Bragg) an outstanding...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/2009

Weir Blond Eckbert

Anne-Marie Owens | Christopher Ventris | English National Opera Chorus | English National Opera Orchestra | Nerys Jones | Nicholas Folwell | Sian Edwards

Ludwig Tieck’s novella Der Blonde Eckbert (1796) is a dark tale of incest and despair made even darker by the...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/2006

Beethoven String Quartets, Opp 127 & 130

Borodin Quartet

The Borodins’ Beethoven series has, with this fourth volume, reached the halfway mark – time for assessment, perhaps. The impact...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 4/2005

Berners Orchestral Works

Barry Wordsworth | Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

When Lord Berners died in 1950 Constant Lambert's broadcast tribute rightly discussed the man's eccentricity; his flock of pigeons dyed...

Reviewed in issue 3/1987

Brahms Chamber Works

Budapest Qt | David Oppenheim | Pascal Moraguès | Talich Quartet

Complete sets of Brahms's string quartets over the years have naturally enough included several fine performances of the third and...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 11/1990