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Beethoven String Quartets Nos 12 and 14

This CD is the final instalment of the Cleveland Beethoven cycle; it also marks the Quartet’s swan-song. It was recorded...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 10/1997

Bruckner Symphony No 3

Tennstedt’s recorded legacy is not an extensive one. He held no pre-eminent position, and no state recording contract, in Communist...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/2005

Enrico Molinari (1882-1956)

Molinari’s has never been a name to conjure with among collectors yet, as this CD proves, this Italian baritone merits...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1996

Piano Works by Crumb & Wernick

Better not play this within earshot of any piano-tuners. They tend to regard Crumb's special effects as an infringement of...

Reviewed in issue 3/1987

Handel Arianna in Creta, HWV32

This is the first commercial recording of Arianna in Creta but, just as importantly, it is also the last of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 7/2006

Faure Cello Works

Fauré’s cello sonatas are not nearly so well known as his violin sonatas, but these two late works are well...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 13/2007

White Moon

The title is intriguing, and so is the programme. Songs by American composers of the present century alternate with more...

Reviewed in issue 1/1996

Reger Suite, Op 93 & Serenade, Op 95

I cannot think of a single orchestral work composed during the last 100 years that has been more unfairly neglected...

Reviewed in issue 11/1997

Schubert Lieder

You are a young, eager, inquisitive collector with, as yet, no Schubert Lieder in your library. Provided that you don't...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1995

Women at the Piano, Vol 2

Like Vol 1 (9/06), Naxos’s intriguing “Women at the Piano” Vol 2 opens with a literary salute, this time from...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 13/2006

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