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Haydn String Quartets, Opp.77 & 103

The Salomon Quartet's latest Haydn recording from Hyperion brings together the last contributions to the genre by that composer: the...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 7/1990

Corp Forever Child and Other Choral Works

The setting of Dover Beach stands out among this collection of agreeable, expertly fashioned choral works. Written for the BBC...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/2006

R. Strauss/Hindemith Horn Concertos

These classic performances were recorded a year or so before Dennis Brain's tragically early death in a car crash at...

Reviewed in issue 10/1987

Puccini Tosca

This is a Tosca upon which a great deal of care has been lavished. About 50 per cent too much,...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1994

Berg Lieder

Both of Berg's sets of orchestral songs ideally need operatic amplitude combined with a Lieder-singer's subtlety and responsiveness to words....

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1995

Mahler Symphony No 4

Rattle springs two big surprises in the first four bars. Tempo 1 might initially strike you as overcautious, an air...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 6/1998

Audra McDonald - Way Back to Paradise

If you don’t yet know who Audra McDonald is, then you will, you surely will, after hearing this, her debut...

Reviewed in issue 7/1999

Furtwängler Symphonic Concerto

Furtwangler was the performing musican who, more than any other, provided the criteria by which Daniel Barenboim, Alfred Brendel, the...

Reviewed in issue 12/1991

Haydn: Vocal works

So many skills go into the making of such a record as this that it would be monstrous for the...

Reviewed in issue 1/1986

Scarlatti, F Dixit Dominus

Details are sketchy of the life of Francesco Scarlatti – younger brother of Alessandro and uncle of Domenico – but...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 13/2004

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