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Haydn Violin Concertos

The first thing one notices about this disc is the attractive sound, rounded yet detailed; the second is that the...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 6/1994

Gubaidulina Chamber Works

The arrival of a CD of music for the Russian push-button accordion by a woman composer in her mid-sixties might...

Reviewed in issue 6/1996

Bloch/Briquet/Martin Piano Quintets

The raison d’être of this coupling is that all three composers were born in Geneva and participated (in Ernest Bloch’s...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

Bartók String Quartets

“I was delighted to hear the Keller Quartet’s recordings... and discover the extent to which [the musicians] have entered into...

Reviewed in issue 2/1996

Dvorák Slavonic Dances

First‚ a simple test case: the Slavonic Dance No 15 in C‚ Op 72 No 7. Nikolaus Harnoncourt an the...

Reviewed in issue 7/2002

Nellie Melba – Complete Gramophone Recordings, Vol 1

This is very good news. Melba’s recordings for American Victor came out in a complete edition on Romophone, also with...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/2003

Shostakovich Symphony 5

There is less ambience in the Philips recording, less perspective in the orchestral sound-picture, less sense of the specific size...

Reviewed in issue 3/1987

Wieniawski/Sarasate Works for Violin and Orchestra

The two Wieniawski violin concertos have been the province of Itzhak Perlman until now, but Gil Shaham, who has already...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1991

Gershwin American in Paris/Porgy & Bess Fantasy

The sleeve describes this as the ''original version for two pianos'' of An American in Paris, and, as Gershwin always...

Reviewed in issue 10/1984

Dukas Complete Piano Works

Apart from Debussy and Ravel, 20th-century French piano repertoire is not very familiar to most of us. Yet Dukas’s Piano...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/2008

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