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Beethoven & Wagner: Orchestral Works

Svetlanov exercises plenty of old-fashioned conductorial authority over this 1981 recording of the Eroica. Trenchantly and expressively played it is...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/1990

Bock Fiddler on the Roof

It’s good we have a souvenir of Henry Goodman’s passionate, big-hearted Tevye. Lindsay Posner’s winning Sheffield Crucible production of Stein,...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 2/2008

Watercolours - Swedish Songs

As a general rule the titles dreamed up by record companies to adorn their recital discs bear little relation to...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 3/2004

Milhaud Symphonies Nos 1 & 4

Darius Milhaud embarked on his delightful First Symphony in the autumn of 1939 following a commission from the Chicago Symphony...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/1999

Massenet Amadis

Connoisseurs of operatic curiosities will here find another strange piece to add to a list that includes Rimsky-Korsakov's Mlada (where...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 6/1989

Beethoven Piano Sonatas No 28 & 29

Part of a complete cycle of the Beethoven sonatas, this issue confirms Anton Kuerti’s deeply personal and musicianly qualities. His...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/2005

Satie Ballet and Orchestral Music

Nietzsche said that ''revolutions come on the feet of doves''. We learn this from the useful booklet here, which has...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 5/1992

Vaughan Williams (The) Poisoned Kiss

The Poisoned Kiss is Vaughan Williams’s forgotten opera: this is the first complete recording. It was written in the late...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/2004

Tippett Symphony No 4. Byzantium

For its length (27 minutes) Byzantium is Tippett's most image-rich score to date. Of course the uncheckable teeming of images...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1993

Bantock Sappho & Sapphic Poem

This really is most welcome. In a fascinating booklet-essay, Lewis Foreman relates how, between the years 1900 and 1914, Bantock...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/1997

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