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Bartók/Stravinsky Violin Concertos

As strong a contender as any for top digital rating in this most communicative of twentieth-century concerto masterpieces, forthright and...

Reviewed in issue 5/1998

Wagner Götterdämmerung

As more and more recordings from radio archives are made public we are gradually building a portrait in sound of...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1994

Music of Gabrieli & His Contemporaries

A few years ago I attended an American Music Library Association convention in Washington DC and one of the live...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1989

Handel Cantatas & Sonatas

No sooner had I reviewed an excellent disc of chamber cantatas by Handel sung by the French countertenor, Gerard Lesne...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1992

Bach Cantatas Nos 54, 82 & 170

Bach obligingly made several versions of his Leipzig cantata Ich habe genug to accommodate not only the baritone voice, with...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1996

Bruch/Zemlinsky Piano Trios

Zemlinsky, at 24, the Brahms imitator: Max Bruch, at 70, the Schumann imitator. Zemlinsky in 1895 was writing music at...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/1992

Dyson Orchestral Works

First heard in 1937, Dyson’s Symphony in G is the most ambitious of his orchestral works, so a fine new...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/2005

Vaughan Williams Chamber Works

Vaughan Williams's chamber music has been generally neglected. The impression one has gathered from musicians is that it is respected...

Reviewed in issue 9/1989

Byrd Sacred Choral Music

The 450th anniversary of the birth of William Byrd was bound to produce a spate of commemorative recordings, not least...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 7/1993

Giordano Madame Sans Gene

After Andrea Chenier, Fedora and Siberia, Madame Sans-Gene will be a considerable surprise to Giordano’s admirers, perhaps even to his...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1996

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