Bach Violin Sonatas

Morey Ritt | Ruth Waterman

After the recent unexpected profusion of period-instrument recordings of the Bach sonatas for violin and obbligato keyboard, initial reaction to...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/1997

Maria Callas at Juilliard

Akiko Ikuo Hayashi | Anita Terzian | Eugene Kohn | Kyo Do Park | Luba Tcheresky | Maria Callas | Sheila Nadler | Sung Kil Kim | Syble Young

Hans Keller was of the opinion that few teachers in general and few teachers of musical masterclasses in particular could...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1988

Mozart Piano Concertos Nos 9, 12 and 14

Arie van Beek | Auvergne Orchestra | Edna Stern

Though these two discs have arrived at the same time and offer two of the same works, the differences between...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 5/2011

Verdi Falstaff

Anna Moffo | Chorus | Elisabeth Schwarzkopf | Fedora Barbieri | Herbert von Karajan | Luigi Alva | Nan Merriman | Nicola Zaccaria | Philharmonia Orchestra | Renato Ercolani

For once the record company's words can be taken at face value: this Falstaff is, indeed, an ''outstanding musical document''...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 9/1988

Mahler Symphony No 7

For some Valery Gergiev’s dark, pumped-up Seventh might prove to be the high-point of his Mahler cycle. True, the over-the-barricades...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2008

Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Van Cliburn

Kyrill Kondrashin | RCA Symphony Orchestra | Symphony of the Air (New York) | Van Cliburn

There are many strong candidates for inclusion in a Van Cliburn retrospective such as this; but the Rachmaninov/Tchaikovsky conjunction is...

Reviewed in issue 1/1999

Hakola Clarinet Concerto; Diamond Street; Verdoyances crépuscules

Esa Tukia | Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Kari Krikku | Sakari Oramo

For those whose first exposure, like mine, to Kimmo Hakola’s music was through his earlier, experimental manner (as in his...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 5/2006

Taneyev Symphonies Nos 2 & 4

Russian State Symphony Orchestra | Valéry Polyansky

Polyansky provides a splendidly passionate and invigorating introduction to music that we really should know better in the West. The...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/2002

Marcelo Alvarez - Bel Canto

Carlo Rizzi | Marcelo Álvarez | Welsh National Opera Chorus | Welsh National Opera Orchestra | Ying Huang

Alvarez is the new tenor on the block. Already feted at La Scala, Covent Garden and the Vienna State Opera...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1998

Beethoven Symphonies

London Symphony Orchestra | Wyn Morris

The sight of a Gramophone reviewer going overboard about yet another 'home-grown' product will no doubt be greeted abroad with...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 2/1990