Bach Wohltemperirite Klavier

Ton Koopman

Here are two recent issues of Book 1 of Bach's 48 or, more properly Das Wohltemperierte Clavier. Recently issued, certainly,...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1990

Wagner Tannhäuser

Agnes Baltsa | Andreas Schmidt | Barbara Bonney | Cheryl Studer | Clemens Biber | Giuseppe Sinopoli | Kurt Rydl | Matti Salminen | Oskar Hillebrandt | Philharmonia Orchestra

After Jessye Norman's Carmen for Philips, it's Placido Domingo's Tannhauser—the big names in parts that they wouldn't attempt on stage....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1989

HAYDN Complete Symphonies (Vienna Chamber Orchestr, Maerzendorfer)

Haydn symphony cycles on disc have had an uneasy history, one that has often been pregnant with expectation but littered...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2019

Horowitz - Complete Original Jacket Collection

I first heard Vladimir Horowitz when I was four years old – so my mother told me. Among my parents’...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 2/2010

B A ZIMMERMANN 'Recomposed'

Heinz Holliger | Marcus Weiss | Sarah Wegener | WDR Symphony Orchestra

Wergo’s long-term Bernd Alois Zimmermann Edition now continues with this ambitious ‘Recomposed’ project, placing six of his own works within...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2023

HAYDN Symphonies Vols 32-35 (Johannes Klumpp)

Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra | Johannes Klumpp

Like the Transit of Venus or mild ale, final instalments of Haydn symphony cycles appear infrequently, which makes them worthy...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2025

The Allegri String Quartet-Schubert/ Haydn/ Ravel

Allegri Qt

There may be more glamorous string quartets on the current circuit, more tonally alluring ones too, but there are few...

Reviewed in issue 2/1997

Terezin Music Anthology, Volume 3

Adelio Zagonara | Ales Kaderábek | Allan Sternfield | Andrée Esposito | Andrée Gabriel | Angelo Mercuriali | Antonio Sacchetti | Bambini di Praga | Bohumil Kulínský | Carla Spletter

This is the third recording of Krasa’s Brundibar to have come my way, such is the resurgence of interest in...

Reviewed in issue 7/1997

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas

Sviatoslav Richter

Not for the first time reissued, these recordings in fact date back to 1963, and by present-day standards are now...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1985

Flute Works

Alain Marion | Pascal Rogé

This is a pleasant and refreshing recital of music for flute and piano dating from around 1800. Schubert wrote his...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 10/1988