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Café au lait

As the title indicates, there is nothing here in the nature of a bifteck, so perhaps it’s not a disc...

Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 12/2002

Myaskovsky/Shostakovich Chamber Symphonies

The second of Miaskovsky’s sinfoniettas is currently unlisted on the Gramophone Database, although there has been at least...

Reviewed in issue 4/1999

Vivaldi Concerti & Cantate da Camera, Vol II

Being in the middle of the major project that is the Vivaldi Edition, Opus 111 can afford to break with...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 4/2005

Handel (arr Mozart) Acis & Galatea

What style of performance is called for in Mozart's version of Handel's Acis and Galatea? It seems to me that...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 7/1992

Handel Messiah

We are over-stocked with recordings of this work, as I commented in my December ‘Collection’ article. Anything new needs to...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/2004

Bruckner Symphony No 9

Sawallisch's Bruckner No. 9, recorded in the Great Hall of Munich University in December 1984, may not have the searing...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/1988

Tchaikovsky Hamlet (incidental music)

At first glance this might look like the traditional pairing of Tchaikovsky’s two fantasy overtures – but you might have...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 3/2009

Prokofiev Ivan the Terrible

Acclaimed as a conducting genius in some quarters, Valery Gergiev has been an immensely effective musical director of the Kirov...

Reviewed in issue 2/1998

Cluytens conducts Franck & Ravel

A disc for those who prize largely extinct orchestral styles and sounds. The very wobbly, watery French horn of old...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/1998

Heise King and Marshal

I like this. There is a lot to be said for Nordic charm and Drot og Marsk (''King and Marshall''),...

Reviewed in issue 6/1993

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