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R. Strauss Tone Poems

Karajan's earlier DG recording has long held sway and up to now would be my preferred ver-sion in spite of...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 8/1984

Nielsen Vocal Works

When Nielsen's music to Adam Oehlenschlager's Aladdin appeared (Chandos, 5/93) it brought to light almost an hour's unfamiliar Nielsen along...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1995

Reade Far from the Madding Crowd

Just over a couple of years ago I was most pleasantly surprised by a Naxos CD offering suites from three...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 7/1998

English Cathedral Series Vol 6

The Romantic, quasi-orchestral approach to the organ by these European composers gives ample opportunity to savour the many colours of...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 4/2003

Gluck La rencontre imprévue

If you think of Gluck exclusively as a purveyor of the exalted, serene, classical emotions of an Orfeo or Iphigenie...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 10/1991

Haydn Revisited

For her second two-CD Haydn album Ragna Schirmer ventures far from the beaten track, imaginatively interspersing substantial and familiar masterpieces...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/2008

Sacchini La Contadina in Corte

Antonio Sacchini (1730–86) was one of the leading opera composers of his day, with a career that took him along...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 1/1995

Vorísek Piano Works

Jan Vaclav Vorisek was a highly talented Bohemian who went to Vienna, first as civil servant, then as court organist;...

Reviewed in issue 6/2001

Foerster Eva

Eva is based on a play by Gabriela Preissova; her next was the subject of Janacek’s Jenufa. In common are...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1996

Mozart Piano Concertos 17 & 18

I've been listening to the LP and I shall be curious to see if my impressions are modified when the...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 2/1986

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