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Bartók/Hindemith Viola Concertos

Unless I was a specialist in viola recordings or a money-no-object collector I think I would hesitate before paying full...

Reviewed in issue 3/1993

Vivaldi Chamber Works

I enjoyed much of this recital when I reviewed the LP. The programme is an attractive one, the playing lively...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1986

Mozart Piano Concertos

Nearly a year ago Rudolf Serkin, in his eightieth year, was featured as soloist with the LSO under Claudio Abbado,...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 8/1983

Sibelius Symphonies No.1, 2, 5 & 7

Bernstein mavens familiar with these readings via the audio-only near-equivalents on the Yellow Label will know what to expect. In...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 8/2010

Transcriptions of Bach's Chaconne

There is, traditionally, no point in arguing about tastes; but to my mind it's a pity that this disc bears...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1991

Wagner Siegfried

Klami’s three-act ballet Pyorteita (“Whirls”, 1957-61, based on episodes from the Kalevala) was the major project of his last years....

Reviewed in issue 7/1992

(The) Philosopher's Stone

Some readers of Gramophone will no doubt remember, in 1997, the publicity surrounding the discovery of ‘new’ music by Mozart....

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 10/1999

F. Couperin: Motets

I welcomed these stylish performances of some hardly known motets by Couperin when I reviewed the LP last May. Now...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 5/1985

Bach Orgel-Büchlein, BWV599-644

This is Simon Preston's second Bach recording from Soro Abbey and I, for one, could not be more delighted. It's...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 3/1992

R Strauss Freidenstag

In 1988, the Munich Festival presented every one of the operas of its native son, Richard Strauss. The late William...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1999

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