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Works for Violin and Orchestra

It was a good idea to place together music for violin and orchestra by these three composers who, with Haydn,...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1992

Bach; Telemann Concertos

Florilegium’s recent explorations into Baroque Bolivia have yielded captivating discoveries but the ensemble still has plenty more to say about...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 3/2009

Haydn Keyboard Sonatas, Volume 4

In one respect Brautigam continues to cut an impressive figure. His technique is faultless; but his approach to content is...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 11/2000

Mozart Symphonies

This latest coupling in Sir Neville Marriner's Mozart series for EMI strikes me as his finest yet. Along with the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1988

Purcell Dido & Aeneas; Pavan, Z752

Doom-laden and forbidding, this new Dido revels from the outset in every kind of symbolic reference to the inexorably declining...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 6/1999

Liszt Selected Piano Works Volume 3

As their ferocious title declares, Liszt’s Etudes d’execution transcendante are outsize creations taking technical demands close to the limit (and...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/2000

Schubert - Complete Piano Duets, Volume 4

Goldstone and Clemmow are as lively and engaging as in previous volumes. They make an especially strong case for the...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 12/1999

Schubert; Mahler; Strauss, R Songs

Margaret Price’s belated Wigmore Hall debut yields a feast of sumptuous singing from the most majestic soprano this island has...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 7/2006

Schumann Piano Concerto; Carnival, Op. 9

Unimpeachably honest, Hess’s Carnaval may be less volatile or idiosyncratic than, say, Rachmaninov’s but its special sensitivity and deep affection...

Reviewed in issue 5/2001

Musica da Camera a Napoli

The idea of a selection of music that might have been heard in early eighteenth-century Naples is not a new...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/1994

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