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Sullivan Cox and Box; Trial by Jury

These two one-acters make a sensible and happy coupling. Cox and Box was Sullivan’s first sortie into operetta and it...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 8/2005

Kissin plays Rachmaninov

Evgeny Kissin, in case you missed the New Year's Eve international telecast from Berlin, is an 18-year-old Russian who is...

Reviewed in issue 3/1989

Mahler Symphony No 4

Neville Cardus thought there was no more felicitous (the word is precisely right) symphony than Mahler's Fourth, ''everything contributing to...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/1986

Mozart Piano Quartets

These are affectionate and musically very aware accounts of two beautiful works. Steven Lubin's piano, built by R. J. Regier...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/1991

Copland: Orchestral works

It is an attractive idea to have a Mexican conductor and orchestra tackling a group of Copland's most colourful, outward-going...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1985

Wolf Lieder Recital

The programme opens with a song of which Schwarzkopf made two studio recordings, both of them remaining unpublished. It is...

Reviewed in issue 2/1996

Beethoven; Berg Concertos for Violin

Just as Berg’s Concerto is dedicated to “the memory of an angel”, Arabella Steinbacher’s recording is dedicated “to my dear...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 13/2009

Adams J El Niño (The Nativity)

An opera by John Adams’ says the packaging. Not quite. This is the composer’s multi­cultural‚ post­feminist‚ quasi­minimalist take on Handel’s...

Reviewed in issue 1/2002

Shostakovich and his Comrades

Shostakovich’s two piano sonatas encased in works by older and younger Soviets and a passionate sympathiser from the West make...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 1/2007

Gluck Orphée et Eurydice

The text here is one of the compromises between French and Italian, with an Orpheus at contralto pitch (in place...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/1998

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