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Elgar Piano Works

Listening to the beginning of this record without knowing its contents was an unsettling experience. Repetitive, warmed-over Schumann, clumsily written...

Reviewed in issue 7/1986

Menuhin 75th Birthday Edition

In a very short article entitled ''Performing Greatness'' included at the end of the recently published The Keller Column (Lengnick;...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 4/1991

Spohr Jessonda

It is not particularly surprising that Jessonda should have been popular in its time nor that it should have been...

Reviewed in issue 11/1991

Haydn/Mozart/Danzi Wind Quintets

The odd man out here is the Magic Flute duet, arranged (with advantages, Mozart may or may not have thought,...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/1997

Beethoven Late Piano Sonatas

DG's booklet says nothing at all about Rudolf Serkin and tells us only that Austrian Radio was responsible for this...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 10/1989

Janácek Janácek Album (The)

The bad news straight away. Two external factors seriously undermine this disc. Firstly‚ the recorded sound is very close and...

Reviewed in issue 9/2002

Berlioz Overtures

The selection is an unusual one, and may well appeal to Berlioz collectors who want this particular combination; but such...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1991

Ward Viol Consort Music

Beyond the occasional madrigal, we haven’t heard much of John Ward’s music on CD. As in its own day, it...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 11/2009

Poulenc Choral Works, Vol. 2

The first half of this programme by The Sixteen (actually singing at a basic strength of 20 voices) consists of...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1993

Music for Tudor Kings

These two recordings were made 20 years apart, the first being a compilation of two Saga Classics LPs. Those familiar...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 6/2008

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