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Couperin Concerts Royaux

These performances of Couperin's four Concerts royaux originally formed part of a four-LP album from Archiv issued during the mid...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1989

Debussy Complete Works for Piano, Vol. 1

The two books of Preludes, one on each CD, are the main works here, and the inclusion of other important...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 8/1996

Liadov: Orchestral Works

There is a well-attested story of Liadov failing to produce a score for Diaghilev: the disgruntled impresario refused to accept...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1986

Margola Chamber Works

When dictionaries mention him at all, which is rarely, Franco Margola (1908-92) is usually described as a composer of conservative...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 11/1997

Grieg Piano Concerto; Peer Gynt Suites

This is an account of the Berlioz cycle to be reckoned with. Bernadette Greevy seems to peer into the romantic...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1990

Rutter Gloria; Magnificat

Celebrating his 60th birthday, the choir of King’s College Cambridge offer this coupling of two of John Rutter’s most celebratory...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 5/2005

Lehár Waltzes

Lehar was a more than worthy successor to the Strausses in the Viennese waltz tradition. But, by his time, the...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 12/1983

Chopin Piano Works

I enjoyed Duchable most in the two sonatas monopolizing the third disc, and the A flat Polonaise and the Op....

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 10/1994

Bushes and Briars

From soulful first to sociable last, these part-songs are a delight for listeners as for singers. All who have warbled...

Reviewed in issue 2/1996

Kernis Second Symphony; Musica Celestis etc

This is the third disc in Argo’s series devoted to the music of the American composer Aaron Jay Kernis and...

Reviewed in issue 10/1997

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