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Distance & Enchantment Chamber Works by Judith Weir

Judith Weir's music is not simplistic, nor does it ape any style from the past, and it is not in...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1995

Fire Burning in Snow

Ex Cathedra’s third disc devoted to exploring Baroque music from Latin America showcases the 20‑verse marathon Hanacpachap cussicuinin. Dating from...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 6/2008

Tuma Partitas, Sonatas and Sinfonias

Frantisek Tuma (1704-74) was one of many 18th-century Czech musicians who became an honorary Viennese, employed as Kapellmeister to Count...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 1/2009

Chopin Piano Sonata No 3. Ballades

This generously filled record first and foremost reveals Ousset as an ardent, no-nonsense Chopin player unaddicted to ''Polish arythmia'', as...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 8/1987

Handel Complete Sonatas & Works for Violin and Continuo

Any disc calling itself “complete” anything, especially when that anything is Baroque music, is inviting argument from the anoraks. This...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 2/2008

Bach Cantatas Nos 80 and 147

In these new performances of cantatas by Bach, Joshua Rifkin pursues the one-to-a-part principle which he demonstrated in his Gramophone...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1987

Schubert Piano Sonata, D959. Schumann Piano Sonata 2

Schumann's G minor Sonata here makes its first appearance on CD in this country. (Martha Argerich's DG recording from 1972,...

Reviewed in issue 8/1988

Morales Mass for the Feast of St Isidore

It must have been difficult to find a suitable programme to follow the Gabrieli Consort’s triumphant recording of Victoria’s Requiem...

Reviewed in issue 8/1996

Bach Brandenburg Concertos

Recordings of the Brandenburg Concertos are so numerous—and continually proliferating—that a new one needs to offer something special of its...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 1/1987

Debussy: Orchestral Works

Like other Decca recordings from Cleveland the quality is splendid, with rich orchestral tapestries, luminous wind timbres and convincing perspectives...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1987

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