Trumpet Concertos

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Herbert von Karajan | Maurice André

Maurice Andre is a considerable star on the continent, hence the proliferation of CDs bearing his name. His problem is...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1989

Gluck La rencontre imprévue

Annegeer Stumphius | Anne-Marie Rodde | Claes-Håkan Ahnsjö | Iris Vermillion | Jan-Hendrik Rootering | Jolanta Kaufman | Leopold Hager | Malcolm Walker | Munich Radio Orchestra | Paolo Orecchia

La recontre imprevue belongs, along with works by Haydn and Mozart, to an eighteenth-century tradition of 'Turkish' works in which...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 12/1992

Bach Organ Works

Marie-Claire Alain

A brisk and dashing programme. The D minor Toccata and Fugue set the pace for a display of brilliance suited...

Reviewed in issue 8/1983

Kabalevsky Volume 4

Dimitry Kabalevsky | Dmitri Kitaenko | Emil Gilels | Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra | Nikolai Petrov | USSR TV and Radio Large Orchestra | Yuri Popov

Kabalevsky's Third, his 'youth' Concerto, is the least ambitious and most enjoyable of his four piano concertos. The themes of...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/1992

Handel: Oboe and Trio Sonatas

Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble | Denis Vigay | Iona Brown | Nicholas Kraemer

These five CDs of Handel chamber music contain performances which have already been issued in LP format. The most extensive...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 12/1985

More Divine than Human (Eton Choirbook)

The Eton Choirbook ranks among the most difficult music composed to be sung by children, namely the boy trebles of...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2009

Opera Duets

Igor Morozov | Janez Lotric | Johannes Wildner | Slovak Opera Chorus | Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

Meet a tenor. Janez Lotric is from Slovenia was seven years with the Maribor Opera, and has recently appeared in...

Reviewed in issue 2/1995

Sviatoslav Richter - Recital

Sviatoslav Richter

Recorded live at Richter’s beloved Aldeburgh in 1966‚ this BBC Legends issue shows an incomparable pianist at the height of...

Reviewed in issue 6/2002

Grieg Lyric Pieces

Daniel Levy

Although Grieg's Lyric Pieces very much follow in the genre of Mendelssohn's Songs without words and Schumann's cycles of shorter...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 12/1989

Kathleen Battle at Carnegie Hall

Kathleen Battle | Margo Garrett

There is some exquisite singing here and a high degree of accomplishment in a varied repertoire. The occasion was clearly...

Reviewed in issue 7/1992