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Borodin Quartet 60th Anniversary

One of my most abiding musical memories is of a series of three concerts at the Goldsmiths’ Hall where the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 9/2005

Le Patron of the Saxophone

Revered as the Grand Old Man (he was 95) of the classical saxophone, Marcel Mule is shown by this disc...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 5/1997

Michele Pertusi - Serenata

The problem (for there is one) of presenting songs of this kind with satisfactory arrangements and accompaniments finds a novel...

Reviewed in issue 11/1998

Franck Orchestral Works

In the Symphonic Variations, Crossley avoids Lisztian flamboyance and generalized 'romantic' inflexion and yet there is plenty that is individually...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/1995

Handel (Il) Pastor Fido; Water Music

Telarc here simultaneously offers rival versions of Handel’s Water Music; the one from Martin Pearlman and Boston Baroque is completely...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/2003

Tchaikovsky (3) Cantatas

Moscow is a rarity, more so than it deserves to be. The difficulty, of course, is that one city does...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 13/2004

Mahler Symphonic Movements

The idea of a record of Mahlerian symphonic fragments has its attractions but possibly more in a planning conference than...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1989

Farnon Light Orchestral Works

The recording dates of the 20 pieces here give an acute sense of the impact Robert Farnon made on the...

Reviewed in issue 4/2002

Schubert Mayrhofer Lieder

Prégardien and Staier‚ who have now been musical partners for more than 10 years‚ add to their laurels as interpreters...

Reviewed in issue 1/2002

Stokowski conducts a Russian Spectacular

If ever a disc encapsulated the very essence of Leopold Stokowski's charismatic art, then this is it. Even within the...

Reviewed in issue 11/1994

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