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Richard Lewis sings Handel Arias & Folksongs

It’s a pity: we never celebrated Richard Lewis in his lifetime, and if it is true that during his last...

Reviewed in issue 9/1998

Britten Orchestral Works

This is an attractive Britten programme, extremely well performed by these Montreal players under Yuli Turovsky. The recording, too, is...

Reviewed in issue 2/1991

Beethoven String Quartets

As the note puts it, ''the Borodin Quartet is not four different instruments, it is one instrument with sixteen strings''....

Reviewed in issue 6/1989

Bach Bach Album (A)

Timothy Roberts’ artistic guidance of His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts deserves top plaudits here. Sit back and imagine the elderly...

Reviewed in issue 6/2002

Britten: Cello Works

The Britten and Shostakovich sonatas make such an instructive coupling that it's surprising no one has attempted it on record...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 10/1989

Waxman Goyana

The main news here is the first recording of Waxman’s Auld Lang Syne Variations – I imagine this will feature...

Reviewed in issue 8/1999

Mozart/R. Strauss Horn Concertos

These are expert performances of extrovert music. Radovan Vlatkovic is an accomplished soloist, and Jeffrey Tate and the English Chamber...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 10/1994

Bruckner Symphony No 5

It is not unusual to hear the music of composers of the Baroque period being subjected to what in literary...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/2010

A Hilliard Songbook-New Music for Voices

The Hilliard Ensemble have always had an interest in commissioning and performing works by living composers, but apart from a...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 1/1997

Beethoven Fidelio

Hamburg’s archive of early TV recordings has yielded up stronger productions of 20th-century work (the Wozzeck, Globolinks and Devils of...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 9/2007

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