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Walton Orchestral and Instrumental Works

It is good to have Rafael Wallfisch giving his view of a concerto written for his mentor, Piatigorsky. When Wallfisch...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1991

Lehár Die lustige Witwe

In Capriccio the proposition is raised that an opera be written about these very people, the cast in fact, who...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/2000

Veracini Overtures

Veracini's music is little known, but the neglect is as unjustified as the traditional unfavourable comparison with Vivaldi. Something of...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 12/1994

Maxwell Davies Orchestral and Chamber Works

Aren't policemen looking young these days? I mean, can it really be a quarter of a century since Maxwell Davies's...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/1995

London Landmarks

The most striking work here‚ by far‚ is Christopher Gunning’s Saxophone Concerto. A pupil of Rubbra and Richard Rodney Bennett‚...

Reviewed in issue 10/2002

Beethoven Edition, Vol. 3 - Orchestral & Stage Works

Beethoven writing occasional pieces and ballet or incidental music is the composer on automatic pilot or, to put it another...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 13/1997

D'Anglebert Harpsichord Wks

Jean-Henri d’Anglebert is one of the three most important figures of the influential French harpsichord school of the 17th century,...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: /2000

Bortnyansky Choral Concertos

Born in 1751, Dmitry Bortnyansky was one of the X Russians sent off to Italy by Catherine the Great to...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/1995

Debussy; Janácek; Tchaikovsky Orchestral Works

Here is yet another invaluable live document that proves beyond reasonable doubt that the greatest conductors were at their best...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2002

Karajan conducts Beethoven, Strauss and Wagner

This concert was the Berlin Philharmonic’s first in Japan in the orchestra’s 75-year history. The all-German programme is one they...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/2010

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