Roxburgh Clarinet Concerto; Saturn

Edwin Roxburgh | Hertfordshire County Youth Orchestra | Linda Merrick | Peter Stark | RNCM Symphony Orchestra

Although Montage was a notable success at the 1977 Proms, Edwin Roxburgh is as well known as a composition teacher...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 9/2006

Beethoven Piano Sonatas

Emil Gilels

A gilels record was always a special event. In the first place it was gratifying to have a significant addition...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1985

Elgar Symphony No 2

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | Edward Downes

Further proof that Sir Edward Downes is an Elgarian to be reckoned with. His Conifer Classics Enigma (1/91), full of...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/1994

Canciones españolas - Carreras

Alfred Brendel

When this record first emerged exactly 12 years ago as part of Brendel's projected album covering Schubert's last six years,...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1985

Bach Christmas Oratorio

Christa Ludwig | Franz Crass | Fritz Wunderlich | Gundula Janowitz | Karl Richter | Munich Bach Choir | Munich Bach Orchestra

Too late for a review in time for Christmas! Never mind, there are more successful performances of Bach's Christmas Oratorio...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1989

MacMillan - Choral Works

A product of Oxbridge and London’s Guildhall School of Music (and a former member of King’s College Choir), Marcus Creed...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2009

Bellini Norma

Carlos Sagarminaga | Concha de Los Santos | Giulietta Simionato | Guido Picco | Kurt Baum | Maria Callas | Mexico City Palacio del Bellas Artes Chorus | Mexico City Palacio del Bellas Artes Orchestra | Nicola Moscona

Callas's debut at Mexico City in the first performance of her Norma to have survived on records is every bit...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/2000

Weber Oberon

Ben Heppner | Cologne Gürzenich Orchestra | Cologne Opera Chorus | Deborah Voigt | Delores Ziegler | Dwayne Croft | Gary Lakes | James Conlon | Machiko Obata | Victoria Livengood

Oberon will always be a problem work. Weber wrote it for a set of English theatrical conventions, in which music...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/1993

Chopin Mazurkas

Arthur Rubinstein

With this four-CD set of the Nocturnes, Mazurkas and Scherzos Naxos completes its bargain reissue of Rubinstein’s 1932-39 HMV Chopin...

Reviewed in issue 6/2001

Milhaud Piano Music

Alexandre Tharaud | Madeleine Milhaud

This recording, featuring Madeleine Milhaud, is of historical importance. The composer’s widow was, of course, younger than he and, as...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 5/1996