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Schubert Rosamunde

While many collectors obviously remain happy with the three famous numbers from Rosamunde (alongside the Overture, actually written for Die...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1985

Wagner Orchestral Excerpts from the Operas

Sample any of this programme half attentively and the 'impurities' of tone and pitching are obvious; but if you make...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/1994

Miaskovsky Symphony 3; Lyric Concertino

The problem with Miaskovsky, as with any prolific artist who is less great than Mozart, is that we feel daunted...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 1/1988

Arias & Duets

The concert at London’s Royal Festival Hall in April last year was one of those rousing ringside events where the...

Reviewed in issue 6/1998

Prokofiev Works for Cello

This is the second disc from the new Black Box label to come my way. The first, an enterprising issue...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 4/2000

Bach (6) Suites for Cello

On the face of it, it seems a strange idea to make a DVD recording of a man playing the...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2006

Armenian Orchestral Works

A real hotchpotch, this, ranging in quality from the almost comical, test-card kitsch of the Rhapsody by Alexander Adjemian (1925-87)...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/1998

Saint-Saëns Orchestral Works

Upholders of the 'small is beautiful' argument seem to have lost out heavily in the case of Saint-Saens's Second Symphony,...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 5/1988

Parlami d'amore

''Leo Nucci has returned to his roots'', the sleeve-note informs us. The question is what has he done with them?...

Reviewed in issue 4/1990

Haydn Symphonies, Vol.16

This latest disc in Naxos’s useful but variable Haydn cycle offers solid, decently played performances of three underexposed works from...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

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