C.P.E. Bach Oboe Concertos

(Das) Kleine Konzert | Armin Thalheim | Barbara Schlick | Berlin Chamber Orchestra | Burkhard Glaetzner | Carl Philip Emanuel Bach Orchestra | Christiane Jaccottet | Christoph Prégardien | Eckart Haupt | Gerard Schwarz

Capriccio have looked after the interests of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach generously if not always discerningly in its 14 volume...

Reviewed in issue 10/1988

Mendelssohn String Quartets

Raphael Quartet

The Raphael Quartet are clearly keen to make out a case for Mendelssohn's string quartets, which are indeed still too...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1989

Constant Lambert Orchestral Works

Barry Wordsworth | BBC Concert Orchestra | BBC Singers | Della Jones | Kathryn Stott

There have been times when less of Constant Lambert than of Frank and Michel of that name has shown up...

Reviewed in issue 10/1992

Bach Cantatas Nos 202 & 206

Christine Schäfer | Helmuth Rilling | Ingeborg Danz | Michael Volle | Sibylla Rubens | Stanford Olsen | Stuttgart Bach Collegium | Stuttgart Gächinger Kantorei

Helmuth Rilling made his first recording forays into Bach’s secular cantatas and drammae per musicae in the mid to late...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1998

Rossini Overtures

Constantine Orbelian | Gustav Kuhn | Marchigiana Philharmonic Orchestra | Moscow Chamber Orchestra

If anything were going to convince me of the justice of George Bernard Shaw’s remark that Rossini was ‘one of...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/2001

Prokofiev & Stravinsky Orchestral Works

Dallas Symphony Orchestra | Eduardo Mata | New York Philharmonic Orchestra | Zubin Mehta

Friendly folk the Scythians; given, it would seem, to blood drinking amongst other things. And Prokofiev's suite was expressly intended...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/1991

Zadora - The Complete Recordings

Here on a two-CD set is more buried treasure from APR. And it is with a rich sense of irony...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/2010

Feidman plays Piazzolla

Giora Feidman | Pforzheim South-West German Chamber Orchestra | Vladislav Czarnecki

Piazzolla was born in 1921 and died in 1992. So, with no anniversaries in immediate view, why has there been...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 3/2004

Shostakovich String Quartets Nos 2 & 3

St Petersburg Qt

With so many Shostakovich quartet integrales in progress, the cycle looks set to overtake Bartok’s as the twentieth century’s most...

Reviewed in issue 11/1999

Yvonne Kenny at the Wigmore Hall

Lawrence Skrobacs | Yvonne Kenny

Turning up the files to see what the press had to say about the occasion, I found the Daily Telegraph...

Reviewed in issue 4/1985