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Verdi Don Carlos

If you want the edition of the work revised in Italian by Verdi, first performed in 1884, this is your...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 13/2004

Clarinet Concertos

When a Molter concerto first reached England at the end of the Second World War (one of a set of...

Reviewed in issue 9/1986

Beethoven Sonatas for Fortepiano

Among British fortepianists today, Melvyn Tan is certainly one of the leading lights. This record attests to his formidable technique...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/1988

Banyumas Bamboo Gamelan

This CD gives a rare glimpse into the exuberant world of the calung (pronounced “chalung”). Originating from an area known...

Reviewed by ssteptoe in issue: 7/1998

Mozart Violin Sonatas, Vol. 2

As in their earlier set, of Mozart's Paris and Mannheim sonatas for keyboard and violin (5/94), Temenuschka Vesselinova and Chiara...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 10/1994

Villa-Lobos Piano Works

The first book of A prole do bebê (1918) was written for, and a great favourite of, Arthur Rubinstein (sadly...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 7/2007

Ravel Orchestral Works

Clever though it may be of the technical boys to produce recordings with the widest possible dynamic range, what sensible...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1988

Bruckner Sacred Vocal Works

This is the first volume of the Bruckner Archive series, devoted to the composer's less-known music. All the items belong...

Reviewed in issue 9/1985

Rossini Il barbiere di Siviglia

In the 1950s and 1960s it was not uncommon for recordings of the Italian operatic repertory to be locally cast...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/1989

Song of Songs - Come into my garden

This collection of settings of one of the oldest recorded love-poems explores its manifestations in Sephardic and Hebrew repertories, medieval...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 13/1998

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