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Berlioz Roméo et Juliette

No composer has ever been so deeply devoted to Shakespeare, nor understood him so creatively, as Berlioz. Accepting the challenge...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/1998

Verdi Aida

This set is based on the much-criticized staging, by Luca Ronconi, at La Scala, first seen in December 1985–January 1986...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1990

Kodaly Sonata

It takes remarkable powers of concentration for a performer to sustain nearly an hour of solo cello music without any...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2011

Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 1-3 & 15

Listen to Stephen Kovacevich anywhere in these four sonatas and the authentic voice of Beethoven leaps out at you. The...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 13/1999

Mozart Piano Concertos 1-4

‘These performances follow the original practice in Salzburg and use an orchestra without cellos’, says a note in the booklet....

Reviewed in issue 5/2001

Great Opera Singers - Christoff, Gobbi, Janowitz & Streich

Precious mementos here – including the so-called ‘bonus’ tracks. But why, will anyone tell me, are they ‘bonus tracks’ at...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/2005

Works for clarinet and orchestra

As a recent winner of the ''BBC Young Musician of the Year'' award, Emma Johnson can be assumed to have...

Reviewed in issue 11/1986

Bach St Matthew Passion

This new recording of Bach's St Matthew Passion has not come entirely as a novelty to me since I was...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 5/1990

Field Nocturnes

There is no abatement in the steady stream of Field Nocturne recordings suggesting that many pianists, whether addicted to old...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/1993

R. Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra

Less passionate than Karajan on DG, less noble than Haitink on Philips. Ozawa yet directs one of the most convincing...

Reviewed in issue 3/1983

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