Beethoven Cello Sonatas Nos 2, 3 and 5

David Watkin | Howard Moody

If you’re not sure about the advantages of original-instrument performance of classical chamber music, try this disc! Watkin and Moody...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 10/1996

Chris Norman - Man with the Wooden Flute

The wooden flute used in most of this programme is English, from the first half of the nineteenth century, two...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 9/1992

Holmboe String Quartets, Vol. 1

Kontra Qt

At last the Holmboe quartets are making a long overdue appearance on CD. In one of our contemporaries I see...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 6/1994

Tchaikovsky String Quartets, Vol 1

Utrecht Quartet

I don’t remember a better-sounding string quartet recording; even listening on ordinary stereo equipment you’ll admire its fullness and resonance,...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 2/2010

Hindemith conducts Hindemith

Dennis Brain | Paul Hindemith | Philharmonia Orchestra

At the time of these recordings, made in November 1956, the producer Walter Legge wrote to a friend that ''under...

Reviewed in issue 4/1987

(The) Record of Singing, Vol 5 (1953-2007)

“The Record of Singing” began life as the brainchild of two distinguished collectors of historic vocal recordings. Early LP volumes...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/2009

Liszt Organ Works

Günter Kaunzinger

Kauzinger has been acclaimed for his live performances and his recordings have won awards. One can see why. He is...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 2/1991

Piazzolla Concerto pour bandonéon; Tangos

(Les) Violons du Roy, Québec | Benoît Loiselle | Jean-Marie Zeitouni | Josep Pons | Orquestra de Cambra Teatre Lliure | Pablo Mainetti | Pascale Giguère

Harmonia Mundi's disc (recorded 10 years ago) came as a revelation to many who, as Lionel Salter predicted in his...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 3/2007

Gounod Sapho

Christian Papis | Eric Faury | Lionel Sarrazin | Michèle Command | Patrick Fournillier | Philippe Georges | Saint-Etienne Lyric Chorus | Saint-Etienne Nouvel Orchestra | Sébastien Martinez | Sharon Coste

Sapho was Gounod's first opera, composed in 1850 at the behest of Pauline Viardot, who took the title-role when it...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 7/1994

Aleck Karis piano recital

Aleck Karis

Aleck Karis inaugurates this American Pianists Series in impressive fashion. At first sight the choice of programme might seem eccentric,...

Reviewed in issue 1/1987