Biber Sonatas and Passagalias

Andrew Manze | Nigel North | Romanesca

The tercentenary of Biber's death was marked by a number of important releases last year. Two different Requiems from Pickett...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 2/1995

Mewton-Wood Volume 1 - Chopin

Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra | Noel Mewton-Wood | Walter Goehr | Zurich Symphony Orchestra

Inconsolable after the death of his partner Bill Fredricks, Noel Mewton-Wood (1922-53) committed suicide at the age of 31 and...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/1999

Mendelssohn: Symphonies for string orchestra

London Festival Orchestra | Ross Pople

The London Festival Orchestra are a compact group of strings directed from the first desk of cellos by Ross Pople,...

Reviewed in issue 7/1986

Gretry (L')Amant Jaloux

In his Mémoires, the Ancien Régime’s favourite purveyor of opéra-comique described himself as “having received from Nature the gift of...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 4/2011

(A) Handel Celebration

(The) Sixteen | (The) Sixteen Orchestra | Alastair Ross | Carolyn Sampson | Harry Christophers

This is a straight reproduction, stilted conversations and all, of a programme broadcast on BBC2 in August last year, three...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 10/2010

Schmelzer Sonatas

Romanesca

Performances of works from the indigenous Austrian seventeenth-century ‘school’ have made a significant impact on the status quo of mainstream...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/1996

Modern French Masterpieces

Irene Jordan | Leonard Bernstein | McHenry Boatwright | New York Philharmonic Orchestra | Schola Cantorum | Verina Zorina | Virginia Babikian

Les choephores is one of Milhaud’s most remarkable works and is the second part of Paul Claudel’s translation of the...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 10/1997

Tansman (24) Intermezzi

Eliane Reyes

Time was when only the merest fraction of music was available on record. Today the situation could hardly be more...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/2011

Mahler Symphony No. 5 (DVD)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Daniel Barenboim

In reviewing the CD release of this live performance (Teldec, 12/98), David Gutman felt that despite the splendour of the...

Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 8/2000

Beethoven Piano Sonatas No 26, 'Les Adieux', & No 29, 'Hammerklavier'

Stephen Kovacevich

Methinks the gentleman doth protest too much. The subject is Beethoven’s speed indications for the Hammerklavier, especially that of the...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 8/2003