Walton Orchestral Works

Bryden Thomson | Eric Parkin | Jan Latham-König | London Philharmonic Orchestra

With the three orchestral Facade suites understandably highlighted in this issue from the Chandos Walton series, there is a danger...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1994

Bliss Clarinet Quintet; String Quartet No 2

David Campbell | Maggini Quartet

Like its predecessor of 1940, Bliss’s Second Quartet (composed a decade later as a 20th-birthday gift to the Griller Quartet)...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2004

Caldara - Opera Arias

Antonio Caldara, born in Venice around 1670, served as maestro di cappella in both Mantua and Rome. From 1716 until...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 1/2011

Granados Piano Works, Vol 5

Douglas Riva

The art of Granados has often proved elusive to performers: if a pianist captures the spirit of this music it...

Reviewed in issue 4/2002

Donizetti Don Pasquale

Alan Titus | Alfredo Kraus | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | Beverly Sills | Donald Gramm | Henry Newman | London Symphony Orchestra | Sarah Caldwell

Towards the end of his survey of Don Pasquale on LP (Opera on Record; Hutchinson: 1979) Harold Rosenthal wrote that...

Reviewed in issue 3/1997

Bériot Piano Trios

If you’ve sampled recent recordings of violin concertos by the 19th-century virtuoso Charles de Bériot (Naxos), you may be intrigued...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 11/2008

Peter Schat The Heavens, Twelve Symphonic Variations, Op 37

(Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | Riccardo Chailly

Peter Schat (b. 1935) is one of the foremost living Dutch composers. If his name is at all familiar outside...

Reviewed in issue 7/1994

Brahms Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2; Piano Pieces Op 116

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Emil Gilels | Eugen Jochum

This is a set that comes so showered with critical acclaim that comment from me hardly seems necessary. RO’s apposite...

Reviewed in issue 6/1996

Mahler Symphony No 9

Evgeni Svetlanov | Russian State Symphony Orchestra

Evgeni Svetlanov’s Mahler cycle continues on its unpredictable course, extrovert and uninhibited for the most part but exhibiting now and...

Reviewed in issue 10/1996

Bizet Orchestral Works

Myung-Whun Chung | Orchestra of the Opéra-Bastille (Paris)

The new Bastille opera house in Paris is legitimately a pride for France and an excellent cultural investment for the...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 11/1991