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Bruckner Symphony No 8. Wagner Preludes

This is the second boxed set within the last 18 months to offer the somewhat unusual (and not especially ‘collectable’)...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/1996

Brahms Lieder

The depth of this remarkable voice is rich-toned as ever, so that the Sapphic Ode is a night-piece of the...

Reviewed in issue 11/1997

Faire is the Heaven

On the face of it this is a collection of familiar hymns and anthems sung by the choir of a...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 9/2004

Brahms Piano Concerto No 1; Hungarian Dances for Piano Four Hands

If you're drawn to weighty, full-throated, hearty, dark and occasionally angst-ridden Brahms First Concerto interpretations along the lines of Buchbinder/Harnoncourt,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 6/2008

Kernis Strin Quartets Nos 1 & 2

I reviewed Kernis’s First String Quartet six years ago (6/93) and noted then his fluent and easy access to different...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 11/1999

Beethoven: Orchestral Works

''In music that calls for a touch of demon or virtuosity, such as Beethoven's Symphony No. 7,'' says John Holmes...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 10/1990

Salieri Falstaff

Salieri’s version of Falstaff, to a libretto by Carlo Prospero Gianfranceschi, has as subtitle Le tre burli, “the three jokes”:...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 6/1998

Schnittke; Shostakovich Cello Sonatas

A cleverly devised programme‚ much of it in‚ around or actually ‘about’ its C major­minor ton­ality. Competition in Schnittke’s First...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

Richard Strauss conducts Beethoven

When Strauss entered the studio in early 1926 to conduct Beethoven's Seventh Symphony he had already made a number of...

Reviewed in issue 10/1992

Elgar/Musgrave Orchestral Works

I feel impossibly churlish to criticize what I’m sure must have been an unforgettable experience for all involved, but to...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/1998

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