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Review of French Ballroom Favourites

French Ballroom Favourites

Bratislava Radio Symphony Orchestra | Jerome Cohen

Marco Polo

Far from Vienna having a monopoly of nineteenth-century dance music, this admirably enterprising collection shows that Paris too had much...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 8/1996

Review of Vivaldi: Violin Concertos

Vivaldi: Violin Concertos

Naples Soloists | Salvatore Accardo

This is, including a few oddballs, the 39th CD version of Vivaldi's Big Four (the LP count is even higher):...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 12/1988

Review of WOLF Complete Songs Vol 1

WOLF Complete Songs Vol 1

Anna Grevelius | James Gilchrist | Sholto Kynoch | Sophie Daneman | Stephan Loges

Stone

It is a bold venture for the young company Stone Records to set out to record the songs of Hugo...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 01/2012

Review of SEARLE 'Pilgrim of Curiosity'

SEARLE 'Pilgrim of Curiosity'

Carla Rees | RSNO Wind Ensemble

Delphian

The Scottish composer Oliver Iredale Searle (b1977) has a clearly defined line in evocative, often exotic titles, which give his...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2021

Review of El Bohemio

El Bohemio

Agustín Barrios | Thibaut Garcia

Erato

This is a portrait of the legendary Paraguayan guitarist and composer Agustín Barrios (1885-1944) with a difference: his music, and...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: AW23

Review of Milestones: The Jazz Album

Milestones: The Jazz Album

Ébène Quartet

Erato

Quatuor Ébène’s new jazz album ‘Milestones’ takes its name from the classic Miles Davis long-player from 1958, a time described...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 11/2024

Review of A Lute by Sixtus Rauwolf

A Lute by Sixtus Rauwolf

Jakob Lindberg

BIS

After delighting us with the music of Jacobean and Italian Renaissance masters of the lute in his previous two recordings,...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 01/2018

Review of The Edge of Space

The Edge of Space

English Chamber Orchestra | English Chamber Orchestra Wind Ensemble | Geoffrey Simon | London Symphony Orchestra | Robert Thompson

Chandos

The Gordon Jacob Concerto, written for the great Archie Camden in 1935, is entirely winning, a work to grace any...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1994

Review of Handel Radamisto

Handel Radamisto

Dana Hanchard | Freiburg Baroque Orchestra | Juliana Gondek | Lisa Saffer | Michael Dean | Monika Frimmer | Nicholas McGegan | Nicolas Cavallier | Ralf Popken

Harmonia Mundi

Radamisto was Handel's first opera for the Royal Academy of Music, the company set up in 1719 under his musical...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 6/1994

Review of The Lady's Banquet, Volume II

The Lady's Banquet, Volume II

Jane Chapman

Collins Classics

This disc provides a useful background to the current wave of enthusiasm for Jane Austen – or perhaps that wave...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1996

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