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Magdalena Kozena sings Handel Arias

With most items familiar from previous Handel aria anthologies, on paper this looks full of tired clichés. Thankfully, the stirring...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2007

Poulenc/Szymanowski Stabat Mater

This is beautiful choral singing, finely poised and balanced, and although Robert Shaw is famous above all as a choral...

Reviewed in issue 5/1995

Kreisler: Violin & Piano Works, Vol.1

Kreisler has been a hero to Shumsky, as to very many other violinists, for all his life. This record is...

Reviewed in issue 5/1984

Hear, O Heav'ns

This is a compilation that looks good on paper but works less well in performance. The idea of taking the...

Reviewed in issue 2/1996

Hommage à Chopin

Chopin’s contemporaries were wary of paying him tribute, fearing his waspish tongue and sensing their inadequacy before such unnerving genius....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/2010

Summer Works

The catalogue is not short of anthologies of flute music and transcriptions but there is always room for another good...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 1/1991

Rachmaninov/Stravinsky Orchestral Works

The remote community of Novosibirsk might seem an unlikely setting for a thriving cultural life but the Russian-Soviet tradition of...

Reviewed in issue 2/1995

Stamitz Symphonies

No Carl Stamitz, no consolidation of the Mannheim school of composers and performers founded by his father Johann. There were...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 7/2011

Purcell Dido and Aeneas

One of my dreams, cherished ever since I first heard Dame Janet Baker as Dido, is that Covent Garden, the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1986

Grieg Lyric Pieces

This is certainly one of the very finest discs that Gilels ever made. Record buyers should be eternally grateful that...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 10/1987

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