Attaingnant Lute Works

Hopkinson Smith

In the early 16th century‚ Venice‚ mainly due to Ottaviano Petrucci‚ was the Mecca of music publishing. When he retired...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

Orff Carmina Burana

Atlanta Symphony Chorus | Atlanta Symphony Orchestra | Håkan Hagegård | Judith Blegen | Robert Shaw | William Brown

Three rather extravagantly-spaced sides of LP here become a single CD with obvious benefit, though it might be noted that...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/1983

Mozart Piano Sonatas, Vol. 3

Ingrid Haebler

In this third volume of her new cycle of Mozart's piano sonatas it is no surprise to find Ingrid Hacbler...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 10/1988

Mahler Symphony No 5

Gennady Rozhdestvensky | Moscow Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra

If, as is sometimes stated, Rozhdestvensky himself has had a hand in deciding what to include in this series, he...

Reviewed in issue 10/1997

Bartók Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2

Antoni Wit | György Pauk | National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra of Katowice

The strongest aspect of these performances is soloist Gyorgy Pauk's supremely idiomatic playing. He may not have the virtuosity of...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 1/2000

Haydn Flute Concertos; Scherzandi

Berlin Haydn Ensemble | Emmanuel Pahud | Hansjörg Schellenberger

The Hoffmann concerto was long assumed to be the work of Joseph Haydn, a myth which the front cover of...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 13/1998

Great European Organ, Vol.49

A worthwhile survey of lesser known seventeenth- and eighteenth-century German organ music, ideally suited to the 1977-8 Ahrend organ. John...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 4/1999

German Baroque Cantatas, Vol.2 - Buxtehude

Agnès Mellon | Greta de Reyghere | Guy de Mey | Henri Ledroit | Ian Honeyman | James Bowman | Jill Feldman | Max van Egmond | Ricercar Consort

Nicolaus Bruhns was a pupil of Buxtehude, and a gifted one too, and the small French company Ricercar have done...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1990

Shostakovich String Quartets Nos 6, 8 & 11

Jerusalem Quartet

Having impressed with their previous Shostakovich disc, the Jerusalem Quartet turn to three works directed towards increasingly personal ends. The...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 8/2007

Sibelius Symphonies Nos 1-7. Orchestral Works

Boston Symphony Orchestra | Colin Davis

The five LPs in the boxed set become four Compact Discs, which inevitably involves some redistribution of the symphonies. The...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 11/1986