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Bach St John Passion

This new recording of Bach's St John Passion from South Germany follows the version of the score which Bach first...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1992

Beethoven Missa Solemnis

We know that the Missa solemnis has moments of the utmost and loveliest serenity, others when a spirit of confidence...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/1991

The Pilgrimage to Santiago

This remarkable two-disc album is far and away the most interesting recording I have heard in recent months. Scholarly, entertaining,...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 7/1992

Kyra Vayne, Volume 2

In her interview for BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, Kyra Vayne told of the home-visiting fortune-teller who, having made...

Reviewed in issue 11/1996

Stravinsky Rite of Spring, Jeu de Cartes

A lot of the qualities that you want in a performance of The Rite are here: crisp detailing, precise articulation,...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/1993

Winterreise

The modern singer preparing his Winterreise has a decision to make along lines which probably never even presented themselves to...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 6/2010

Mendelssohn Complete String Symphonies

The late Hans Keller, shrewdest and most controversial commentator on music, used always to say that the composer who wrote...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/2010

Mahler Symphony No 9

New recordings of the Ninth were once major events in gramophone history. This was the work Leonard Bernstein sought to...

Reviewed in issue 7/1994

Mozart Flute Quartets

The flute quartets are not among Mozart's more popular works and I'm even very doubtful if he really wrote the...

Reviewed in issue 5/1985

Arensky Piano Trios

Arensky's First Piano Trio has been recorded quite frequently, and with good reason. The melodic and some of the harmonic...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/2000

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