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Beethoven Wind Music

Beethoven's wind music does not often get an airing. Neither of the principal works on this record is in the...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/1987

Stokowski conducts French orchestral music

This is vintage Stokowski. I have almost ceased to be astonished at the way early stereo recordings are enhanced by...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/1987

Scholl Goes Pop

Once upon a time crossover for “classical” singers consisted of the odd excursion into Broadway showtunes. Now a year that’s...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2007

Bartók Duke Bluebeard's Castle

I'd quite forgotten what a marvellous performance this is—even though, when it comes to Bartok's speech-derived vocal inflexions, native Hungarians...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 3/1995

Music for Prince Charles

Earlier this year, in the fourth volume of his magnificent Records of English Court Music, Andrew Ashbee published for the...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 9/1991

R. Strauss Alpensinfonie

There was a time some years ago when someone seemed to be climbing Everest almost every week. Now, in the...

Reviewed in issue 11/1991

Stanford Anthems & Motets.

Every item on these two discs proclaims Stanford’s mastery. It’s curious: the larger works (the symphonies, operas and so forth)...

Reviewed in issue 6/1997

Brahms Piano Trios

The defiant opening bars of the C minor Trio, Op. 101 constitute a brand of musical confrontation that's rare even...

Reviewed in issue 9/1994

Organ Concertos - Op 7

In this anniversary year it’s appropriate to welcome a new recording of Handel’s Op 7 Organ Concertos. Richard Egarr and...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 11/2009

Black Angels

The Oslo-based Cikada Quartet (founded in 1989) is new to current catalogues, and this programme – commendably off-beat and diverse...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/1995

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