(The) Salzburg Festival

It’s best to skip to Chapter 3, avoiding the vulgar introduction concerned with glitz and glamorous names. Once stuck into...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/2006

Beethoven Sonatas for Cello & Piano Nos 4 & 5

Hidemi Suzuki | Yoshiko Kojima

A short CD, but a memorable one! Hidemi Suzuki and Yoshiko Kojima should, we imagine, sound familiar. The ‘straight’ cello...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 10/2004

Abbo Abbas - Polyphonies Françaises et Anglaises

Katarina Livljanic´’s work with her ensemble Dialogos has been consistently impressive, musically and musicologically, and this new disc, containing both...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 7/2009

Honegger Orchestral Works

Bournemouth Sinfonietta | Tamás Vásáry | Timothy Carey

The year 1992 is the centenary of Honegger's birth so that this Chandos issue is eminently well-timed. The Fourth Symphony...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 12/1991

Haydn String Quartets

Carmina Qt

The young Swiss-American Carmina Quartet on Denon have rightly been winning plaudits, notably with their Mendelssohn disc (3/92) and the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 2/1995

Marguerite Long plays Fauré

Jacques Thibaud | Marguerite Long | Maurice Vieux | Ninon Vallin | Paris Conservatoire Orchestra | Philippe Gaubert | Pierre Fournier

Biddulph’s second tribute to Faure follows hard on their memorable first featuring Cortot, Thibaud, Robert Casadesus and the Krettly Quartet...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/1997

Handel Concerti Grossi Nos. 1-6

Bradley Creswick | Northern Sinfonia

Modern­instrument Baroque performance forms a healthy part of Naxos’s catalogue‚ most notably in the series of Bach’s orchestral and concerted...

Reviewed in issue 13/2001

German Church Cantatas and Arias

Kuijken Consort | René Jacobs

Amongst several delightful examples of mid- and late-baroque German solo cantatas included here, one stands out as a little masterpiece....

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1988

Vivaldi: Concertos

Academy of Ancient Music | Anner Bylsma | Anthony Pleeth | Catherine Mackintosh | Christopher Hogwood | Ian Wilson | Michael Laird | Monica Huggett | Nicholas McGegan | Stephen Preston

The programme, sandwiching two string-orchestral 'character' concertos between four varied 'Noah's Ark' concertos, is of the absorbing kind made possible...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 5/1986

Wirén Symphonies Nos 2 & 3; Concert Overtures Nos 1 & 2

Norrköping Symphony Orchestra | Thomas Dausgaard

Wiren composed five symphonies (the First was withdrawn) between 1931 and 1964. The best-known is No 4 (1952), written at...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2000