Leclair Violin Sonatas Book 1

This CD completes Adrian Butterfield’s three-disc set of Leclair’s first volume of violin sonatas from 1723. Like the others, this...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 2/2010

English Recorder Concertos

Gavin Sutherland | John Turner | Keith Elcombe | Royal Ballet Sinfonia

John Turner, together with the Royal Ballet Sinfonia under Gavin Sutherland, has already given us a highly attractive collection of...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/2003

Beecham in Chicago

Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Thomas Beecham

Here is a rare quarry of film footage which can hardly fail to delight anyone who is interested in Beecham,...

Reviewed in issue 5/2001

Bennett, W S Symphony; Overtures

London Philharmonic Orchestra | Nicholas Braithwaite | Philharmonia Orchestra

William Sterndale Bennett is pictured on the front of the disc as a very Victorian figure indeed. As a friend...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/2007

Beethoven Symphony No 9

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Erna Berger | Gertrude Pitzinger | Philharmonic Choir (London) | Rudolf Watzke | Walther Ludwig | Wilhelm Furtwängler

In 50 years' time will anyone want to reissue any contemporary conductor's live Beethoven Ninth on record? (Will Beethoven's Ninth...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/1985

Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Ingrid Haebler

Colin Davis | Ingrid Haebler | London Symphony Orchestra | Netherlands Chamber Orchestra | Szymon Goldberg

As with one or two previous issues in this series, greatness is, to say the least, debatable here. Ingrid Haebler...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 8/1999

Sixteenth Century Lute Settings of Josquin des Prez

Jacob Heringman

During the 15th century the lute emerged as a solo instrument in its own right and had therefore to assemble...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/2000

Saint-Georges Violin Concertos

Kevin Mallon | Qian Zhou | Toronto Camerata

A second Naxos volume of violin concertos by the dashing violinist, swordsman and sometime soldier Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 13/2004

Mozart Gran Partita

Academy of St Martin in the Fields | Neville Marriner

''A great wind piece of a very special kind'': that is how Mozart's Serenade for 13 instruments was described on...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/1987

Bridge String Quartets Nos 2 & 3

Bridge Quartet

Just over five years have elapsed since the appearance of the Brindisi Quartet’s excellent integral cycle of Frank Bridge string...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/1997