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Beethoven String Quartets, Vol.2

These are eminently well-played accounts, distinguished by good intonation and tonal blend. I implied that the New Budapest Quartet's earlier...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 10/1990

Rachmaninov Piano Trios

The shade of Tchaikovsky haunts both these works. In the first, there are turns of phrase from his Trio, and...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1994

Marais Sémélé - excs

This year the Montreal Baroque Festival celebrated the 350th birthday of Marin Marais with performances and a recording of the...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 2/2007

Lalo Le Roi d'Ys, etc

Rosa Ponselle, one of the starry cast who presented Le roi d'Ys in the United States, is said to have...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 9/1988

Ravel Vocal Works

This fine new Decca recording of Ravel's intoxicating opera introduces some new and very promising singers. The sound quality is...

Reviewed in issue 10/1995

Serendipity - Ad majorem Dei Gloriam

A superb disc and one whose contents are sure to receive plenty of exposure on Classic FM. And I am...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/2007

Liszt Piano Works

Writing of Earl Wild’s Liszt recital at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in 1973, I noted how the notes cascaded like...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2003

Ninna Nanna

There have been anthologies of lullabies before, but surely few that have ranged as widely as this one. In geographical...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 7/2003

Elgar (The) Fringes of the Fleet

The main interest here will naturally gravitate towards Elgar’s The Fringes of the Fleet, a morale-boosting entertainment scored for four...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 1/2010

Sibelius Symphonies Nos 1 & 7

Can this really be the same Leif Segerstam who made such a meal of these two Sibelius symphonies only a...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 2/2003

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