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Talbot (The) Path of Miracles

Joby Talbot was in the band that provided music for that divine comedy Father Ted. After such beatification by association,...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 8/2006

Bruckner Symphony No. 7

Lopez-Cobos is a not inexperienced Brucknerian and on the evidence of this record the Cincinnati Symphony is not without competence,...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/1990

Sonata

There was a time when guitar programmes looked more like an hors-d’oeuvre trolley than a full meal; some still do...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/1996

Schumann/Franck Orchestral Works

It's difficult to find adjectives other than the well worn 'craggy' and 'rough hewn' to describe the cut of Klemperer's...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 10/1992

Shostakovich Symphony 11

While there are some genuinely 'historic' performances in this batch of Shostakovich symphonies, the documentation provided—a curious mix of Soviet-style...

Reviewed in issue 1/1994

Bruckner Symphony No. 2

‘Perhaps the greatest of all recordings of the work‚ spacious‚ involved‚ profoundly human’: so wrote Richard Osborne in 1994‚ referring...

Reviewed in issue 12/2001

English Orchestral Songs

The delightful, and touching, collaboration (if that is the word for it) of Gurney and Finzi is a prime attraction...

Reviewed in issue 6/1999

Auber Gustave III

Auber has become one of the forgotten men of music. Textbooks credit him with being the initiator of the Grand...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 9/1993

Verdi Un ballo in maschera

This was the last of Toscanini's opera recordings, made from two broadcasts in January 1954 in New York's Carnegie Hall....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1991

Beethoven Piano Sonatas

It was only recently, when I was listening to selected comparisons for a review of Stephen Kovacevich’s fine new account...

Reviewed in issue 2/1996

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