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Haydn Piano Concertos Nos 4 and 11

It seems the height of ingratitude to give less than even a lukewarm welcome to any record by the great...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 11/1989

Donizetti Don Pasquale

Donizetti’s comedy is fragile – it can easily be tipped into farce in one direction, or pathos in the other....

Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 7/2008

Elgar Works for Violin

Hugh Bean studied with Albert Sammons, so it's not surprising that his realization of the Elgar Concerto is so nobly...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/1993

I Wants to be a Actor Lady

In recent years, although performers and musicologists have paid an enormous amount of attention to the Broadway musicals of the...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 4/1994

Vaughan Williams (A) London Symphony (original version)

It was during the summer of 1911 that George Butterworth (a victim of The Great War, and whose enchanting 1913...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Mascagni Cavalleria Rusticana

With more than 69 minutes playing time, this CD offers good value, particularly as it comes encased in a special...

Reviewed in issue 11/1985

Czerny Piano Sonatas Vol.1

There was a time when Carl Czerny was one of the most-played composers on the planet. Admittedly, most performances were...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 4/2009

Toscanini Collection, Vol.39

A very attractive programme. The Franck has a wonderfully luminous, gravely eloquent quality, while the ''Queen Mab scherzo'' is given...

Reviewed in issue 11/1992

Klami Psalmus

Whether or not one concurs – and I am not sure I do, entirely – with the assessment of Professor...

Reviewed in issue 2/1997

Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin

This is an important and profoundly satisfying issue. It houses what was hitherto a rarity: the first recording (apart from...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/2003

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