Chopin Sonata No 2

No pianist played closer to the edge than Vladimir Horowitz. And here, in this invaluable reissue of performances dating from...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2008

Machaut Mercy ou Mort

Crawford Young | Ferrara Ensemble

The Ferrara Ensemble offers here a very well conceived cycle of chansons and motets d’amour‚ engagingly reflected upon in Jacques...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

Bax Symphony No 2; November Woods

David Lloyd-Jones | Royal Scottish National Orchestra

‘I put a great deal of time (and emotion) into the writing … it should be very broad indeed, with...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/1999

Bax Orchestral Works

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Vernon Handley

The second Northern Ballad has been rarely heard since its first performance in 1946 (12 years after its composition) and...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1986

Bach Violin Concertos

(The) English Concert | Elizabeth Wilcock | Simon Standage | Trevor Pinnock

In his review of the LP version, RF concluded by saying that he found it difficult to choose between Simon...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1984

Brahms String Sextets

Raphael Ensemble

I'm sure every record lover knows that feeling when you play a record for the first time and somehow know...

Reviewed in issue 1/1989

Britten; Howells; Vaughan Williams Violin Sonatas

John Gilbert | Susan Wass

Howells’s First Sonata (1917-19) dates from a period when the British violin sonata was enjoying perhaps its greatest apogee with...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 13/2008

Busoni Doktor Faust

Anton de Ridder | Bavarian Radio Chorus | Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Ferdinand Leitner | Franz Grundheber | Hans Sotin | Hildegard Hillebrecht | Karl Christian Kohn | Manfred Schmidt

Sooner or later there must be a new recording of Doktor Faust: it is an opera great enough to need...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/1989

Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1

Claudio Abbado | Ivo Pogorelich | London Symphony Orchestra

Those wanting a new digital recording of Tchaikovsky's B flat minor Piano Concerto could well be satisfied with this, but...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/1986

Shostakovich Sonata No 2 & Preludes and Fugues

Boris Berman | Wolfgang Plagge

Given his mastery of large-scale form in symphonies and quartets, plus his prowess as a pianist, you might expect Shostakovich's...

Reviewed in issue 10/1989