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Mendelssohn Orchestral Works

Even with a bonus of a strong, dramatic account of the Ruy Blas Overture this disc is not over-generous in...

Reviewed in issue 2/1993

Haydn: Symphonies

Haydn's symphonies, evoking to a greater or lesser extent the times of day, date from about 1761 and were probably...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1989

Weber: Overtures

With the possible exception of Der Freischutz Weber's operas have not survived on the stage because, like Schubert's, their librettos...

Reviewed in issue 9/1986

Great Conductors of the 20th Century – Otto Klemperer

I haven’t heard enough of the present series to know whether it is an example of the art of the...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/2003

Verdi I Masnadieri

Despite its chorus of brigands who are musically about as lethal as the pirates of Penzance, and despite a denouement...

Reviewed in issue 7/1993

Hommage à Paul Klee

With his Pedagogical Sketchbook often regarded as a virtual manual in composition, Paul Klee has exerted a far-reaching influence on...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 4/2006

Respighi (La) sensitiva

And they say the contralto is an extinct breed! Hear these regal tones ascend the scale in “Nebbie” and descend...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 13/2010

Carter - Choral Music

Elliott Carter served a long apprenticeship as a composer for whom the neo-classical Stravinsky was the acme of progressive modernism....

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/1999

Rachmaninov Symphony No 1

This third of Owain Arwel Hughes’s recordings of the Rachmaninov symphonies for BIS rounds off the series with a sympathetic...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2003

Haydn Keyboard Sonatas

This latest in Julia Cload's slowly evolving Haydn series gives us five works published between 1773 and 1780, a time...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 3/1993

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