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Bach: Concerti

The main interest of this recording is in that it avoids the usual programmatic cliches, bringing together some of the...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 6/1990

Handel Water Music

Several of the numerous recordings of the Water Music couple it with its 'natural' partner, the Music for the Royal...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 10/1994

Bruckner Symphony No 9

''Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive!'' And which dawn, you might bemusedly ask? The dawn of the...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/1991

Purcell (The) Complete Fantazias

Most of the finest viol consorts of our day – Fretwork, Phantasm, the Rose Consort and Hespèrion XX – recorded...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 9/2009

Mendelssohn-Hensel Piano Works Vol 1

For the affluent Mendelssohns, a woman's place was in the home. So even though in early days Fanny's piano playing...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 7/1989

Harmonica Concertos

The Spivakovsky is a particularly engaging work, with a catchy tune in the first movement (much like a Leroy Anderson...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/1994

Chopin - Roots

Potent and popular as ever, Chopin's seminal piano works need no special pleading in this 150th anniversary year. Opus 111's...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/1999

Walter Berry - Liederabend

A burst of applause greets another two superbly transferred Festival Documents, as they are earnestly called, from live Austrian Radio...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 3/2000

Biggs Concertos

A pupil of Roy Harris and Lukas Foss, John Biggs (b.1932) is a fluent, accomplished composer. How best to describe...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/1998

Schumann (Der) Rose Pilgerfahrt

“A very charming fairy-tale idyll” was Schumann’s description of The Pilgrimage of the Rose, composed in 1851 for domestic performance...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 3/2011

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