Donizetti (L')elisir d'amore

This recording was made live at the Lyon Opera in September 1996 and is therefore different from that heard on...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1998

Guitar Music from Argentina

Argentina has produced many fine guitarists‚ as notable for their performance of European music as of that of their own...

Reviewed in issue 5/2002

Falla Piano Works, Vol 1

Like his great compatriots Granados and Albéniz, Falla took time to find his truest, most quintessentially Spanish voice. Who would...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/2007

Karen Geoghegan - Bassoon Works

Spotlit soloist, and the BBC Philharmonic as recorded lacking the ultimate in transparency, range and analysis: this is not what...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 11/2010

Wagner Tannhäuser

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/2002

Chopin - First and Last

Let us first of all deal with the instrument: Peter Katin plays a Collard & Collard square piano of about...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 11/1997

Beethoven String Quartets Nos 9 & 10

This was to have been the first recording in a new cycle of the Beethoven quartets from the Amadeus for...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1989

Lang Lang Dragon Songs

Lang Lang has a knack for building interesting programmes, none more personal, perhaps, than his latest release. It encompasses a...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 3/2007

Haydn Symphonies Nos 95, 97 & 101

This disc completes Slatkin’s survey of the “London” Symphonies and confirms his credentials as an urbane and attentive Haydn interpreter....

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 6/1998

Byrd: Masses, Motets and Lamentation

Browsing recently through the entry for Byrd in the Gramophone Classical Catalogue, I couldn't help wondering at the rich choice...

Reviewed in issue 5/1985