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Verdi Macbeth

The best Macbeth, I think. It first appeared within a month or so of the Abbado/DG set and that was...

Reviewed in issue 5/1989

Haydn String Quartets

Let’s finish with this first. Violinists are to the fore (the leader particular so); their lines are short on luminosity...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 13/2007

Vivaldi: Recorder Concertos

All the composers on this recording provided the Elector of Brandenburg between 1608 and 1678 with music to accompany...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 6/1993

Grieg & Schumann Piano Concertos

If the coupling of these two fine romantic concertos, written in the same key, is in danger of becoming a...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 6/1991

The Art of Arleen Auger

Here is a record to cherish, and with it, of course, a memory. Arleen Auger's fatal illness and her death...

Reviewed in issue 4/1994

Hämeenniemi Symphony No 3; Viola Concerto

Eero Hämeenniemi is perhaps the least well known member of the group of composers, born in the early 1950s, who...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2006

From A-Z, Vol. 1

BIS promises that this alphabetical survey of unaccompanied flute music will ‘probably extend to 12 volumes’ but if the object...

Reviewed in issue 10/2001

Enescu Orchestral Works, Vol. 1

Most of Enescu’s best orchestral works are significantly inventive – but the Third Orchestral Suite, Villageoise, is exceptional even by...

Reviewed in issue 3/1997

Brahms Symphonies

Most performances conducted by Sergiu Celibidache (or Celi as he was popularly known) harbour at least one incomparable ‘Celi moment’,...

Reviewed in issue 5/1999

Debussy Chamber Works

The nucleus of these various combinations is the Chesis/Cutler duo, a pair of highly accomplished artists who met at the...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1991

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